Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Reactor protection or damage prevention – Emergency core coolant systems
Patent
1989-07-19
1992-04-07
Wasil, Daniel D.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Reactor protection or damage prevention
Emergency core coolant systems
376299, 376307, 376406, G21C 1518
Patent
active
051026163
ABSTRACT:
A water cooled nuclear reactor comprises a reactor core, a primary water coolant circuit and a pressurizer arranged as an integral unit in a pressure vessel. A passive full pressure emergency core cooling and residual heat removal system is provided which comprises a tank having a reserve supply of water positioned above the primary water coolant circuit or the reactor core. The tank is interconnected to the primary water coolant circuit by a first pipe and a second pipe. The first pipe has an inverted U-bend which passes through a water space and a steam space of the pressurizer to form a vapor lock. The first pipe and second pipe are also provided with hydrostatic thermal seals. The tank has one or more residual heat removal circuits comprising a heat exchanger positioned in the tank and a heat exchanger outside the tank. Movement of the vapor lock from the inverted U-bend allows cool water from the tank to flow into the primary water coolant circuit and hot water to flow into the tank to be cooled. The vapor lock detects abnormalities in the reactor core and primary water coolant circuit and in the water level in the pressurizer, and automatically initiates full pressure passive emergency cooling and residual heat removal.
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Nuclear Technology, vol. 76, No. 1, Jan. 1987, pp. 185-192.
Gardner Frederick J.
Strong Rodney
Rolls-Royce and Associates Limited
Wasil Daniel D.
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