摘要:
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) includes a vertical cylindrical pressure vessel having a lower portion containing a nuclear reactor core and a vessel head defining an internal pressurizer. A reactor coolant pump (RCP) mounted on the vessel head includes an impeller inside the pressure vessel, a pump motor outside the pressure vessel, and a vertical drive shaft connecting the motor and impeller. The drive shaft does not pass through the internal pressurizer. A central riser may be disposed concentrically inside the pressure vessel, and the RCP impels primary coolant downward into a downcomer annulus between the central riser and the pressure vessel. A steam generator may be disposed in the downcomer annulus and spaced apart from with the impeller by an outlet plenum. A manway may access the outlet plenum so tube plugging can be performed on the steam generator via access through the manway without removing the RCP.
摘要:
A method for operating a nuclear reactor may include adding one or more chemicals to water in the reactor prior to reactor shutdown, during reactor shutdown, or prior to and during reactor shutdown. The one or more chemicals may trigger release of one or more radioactive substances from at least one out-of-core surface of the reactor into the reactor water. A method for reducing post-shutdown radiation levels of a nuclear reactor may include adding one or more chemicals to water in the reactor prior to reactor shutdown, during reactor shutdown, or prior to and during reactor shutdown. The one or more chemicals may include, for example, one or more metals, metal ions, metal compounds, metals and metal ions, metals and metal compounds, metal ions and metal compounds, or metals, metal ions, and metal compounds.
摘要:
An injection system 10 designed to deliver a chemical solution into a reactor through feedwater system taps 22 during normal operating condition of a power reactor is disclosed. The process of delivery is via positive displacement pumps 12 and 14. Injection of chemical is in a concentrated solution form, which is internally diluted by the system 10 prior to discharging from the skid. The injection system 10 minimizes chemical loss due to deposition on the transit line 15, enables a higher concentrated solution to be used as the injectant, eliminates the time consuming laborious process of chemical dilution, raises chemical solution to the pressure required for injection, prevents solid precipitations out of solution at the injection pump head through the use of a flush solution, and deposits fresh chemical on new crack surfaces that develop during a power reactor start-up, shutdown and operation.
摘要:
A method for reducing corrosion of metal components in a water cooled nuclear reactor. A compound containing a platinum group metal, e.g. palladium, is injected alone in small amounts into the high temperature water of the reactor in the form of a solution or suspension. This compound decomposes under reactor thermal conditions to release atoms of the metal in an amount sufficient when present on the metal components to reduce the electrochemical corrosion potential of the metal components to a level below the critical potential to protect against intergranular stress corrosion cracking.
摘要:
Method effecting decontamination of metal components carrying an oxide layer in a nuclear powered water cooled reactor wherein a low concentration of zinc ions is introduced into the water to cause loosening and removal of the oxide layer from the metal surface.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a nuclear reactor with a cooling circulation for a liquid coolant, in particular water, into which hydrogen is to be introduced. The cooling circulation preferably comprises a volume equalisation container (6) for the coolant and at least one high-pressure pump (60, 62) which injects the coolant drawn from the cooling circulation back into the same circulation. The hydrogen injection point (38) is in the suction line (32) on the suction side of the high-pressure pump (60, 62). On the pressure side of the high-pressure pump (60, 62), a measurement line (82) is connected to the volume compensation container (6) or to a drainage system (94). A device (58) for measuring the hydrogen content of the coolant is incorporated in the said line (82). The measuring device (58) is connected via a regulating device (52) to a control valve (42) by which the hydrogen supply to the injection point (38) can be controlled. The gas-injection system ensures a clear and precisely maintained hydrogen content in the coolant.
摘要:
A method for reducing corrosion of metal components in a water cooled nuclear reactor. A compound containing a platinum group metal, e.g. palladium, is injected alone in small amounts into the high temperature water of the reactor in the form of a solution or suspension. This compound decomposes under reactor thermal conditions to release atoms of the metal in an amount sufficient when present on the metal components to reduce the electrochemical corrosion potential of the metal components to a level below the critical potential to protect against intergranular stress corrosion cracking.
摘要:
In water-cooled nuclear reactors where zinc is added to the water to remove or lessen the accumulation of radioactive cobalt, radioactivity arising from the zinc itself as a result of neutron capture is lessened or eliminated entirely by modifying the isotopic composition of the zinc prior to its injection into the system. The modification of the isotopic composition consists of lowering the proportion of ⁶⁴Zn or removing this isotope entirely.