Fuel design for high power density boiling water reactor

Details Fuel design for high power density boiling water reactor Fuel design for high power density boiling water reactor

1991-10-31

1994-05-31

Walsh, Donald P.

Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements

Fuel component structure

Plural fuel segments or elements

376444, 376298, G21C 334

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053176138

ABSTRACT:
A reactor core with each fuel rod surrounded by an individual cylindrical channel is disclosed. This individual channel on each fuel rod provides thermal hydraulic and heat transfer advantages to enable all fuel rods within the fuel bundle to uniformly approach their own thermal limits. The preferred fuel rod pitch is a triangular pitch between the individual fuel rods as they are discretely surrounded by their own channel. The new triangular geometry provides for more uniform (flat) power distributions within all fuel rods--and hence all groups of fuel rods. Bypass flow is introduced uniformly between the fuel rod channels, rather than heterogeneously in the channel gap and water rods as in present BWR fuel designs. Individual fuel rod channels can be orificed differently, as required, to match inlet flow to fuel rod power output to maintain uniformity between all fuel rods as they approach their respective thermal limits. Gaps between bundles can be eliminated, or at least minimized, yielding even higher power density. Spacers with flow diverting structure vanes are applied within the fuel rod channel to limit relative displacement between the channel wall and fuel rod cladding and to serve as turbulent flow promoters.

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patent: 3787285 (1974-01-01), Marstrand
patent: 3809610 (1974-05-01), Smith et al.
patent: 4056440 (1977-11-01), MacBeth

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