摘要:
A method for manufacturing a sheet metal for use in a boiling water nuclear reactor and such a sheet metal. The method includes providing a material of a zirconium alloy that includes zirconium, and whose main alloying materials include niobium. The material is annealed so that essentially all niobium containing secondary phase particles are transformed to β-niobium particles.
摘要:
A method of producing a cladding tube for nuclear fuel for a nuclear pressure water reactor includes forming a tube which at least principally consists of a cylindrical tube component of a zirconium-based alloy, where the alloying element, except for zirconium, which has the highest content in the alloy is niobium, wherein the niobium content in weight percent is between about 0.5 and about 2.4 and wherein no alloying element, except for zirconium and niobium, in the alloy, has a content which exceeds about 0.2 weight percent. The cladding tube is then annealed such that the tube component is partly but not completely recrystallized. The degree of recrystallization in the tube component is higher than about 40% and lower than about 95%. A fuel assembly for a nuclear pressure water reactor also has a plurality of such cladding tubes.
摘要:
The invention relates to a flexible fitting solution for a portable device for inputting control signals to a peripheral unit, which includes a holding member designed to be attached to a hand of a user of the device so as to retain the device in a predetermined manner on the hand. The holding member comprises at least one elongated portion and at least one curved portion connected thereto. A side of the holding member that faces the user's hand when the device is attached to the hand includes a padding module. The padding module, in turn, includes at least one pad cushion adapted to fit the device to the user's hand. The padding module is removably fastened to the holding member by means of a set of fastening members, which secure the padding module in a fastened position. By selecting an appropriate padding module, each user of the device may obtain a good fit of the device onto his/her hand.
摘要:
The present invention relates to nuclear fuel compositions including triuranium disilicide. The triuranium disilicide includes a uranium component which includes uranium-235. The uranium-235 is present in an amount such that it constitutes from about 0.7% to about 20% by weight based on the total weight of the uranium component of the triuranium disilicide. The nuclear fuel compositions of the present invention are particularly useful in light water reactors.
摘要:
A method of making Gd or Er isotopes from gaseous compounds containing —BH4 and —CH3BH3 ions involves making the Gd or Er compounds (24) in a solid state reactor (10), passing the gaseous compounds (24) to a separation process (16) to provide products enriched in the desired isotopes of Gd or Er heads and Gd or Er tails depleted in these desired isotopes and then reacting the Gd or Er heads and Gd or Er tails with chlorine in a reactor (18) to provide products of 157GdCl3, 155GdCl3 or 167ErCl3 enriched in Gd and Er isotopes.
摘要:
The present invention provides a plurality of fuel rods (10A-10D) containing fuel for use in nuclear fuel assembly (17), where an actinide-boron-containing compound or compounds (6B-6E) is used as a burnable poison and is distributed in the actinide fuel in a majority of fuel containing rods (10A-10C) in the assembly, and where boron or enriched boron is contained in more than 50% of the fuel rods in the assembly (17).
摘要:
Structural forms, such as cladding for nuclear fuel (57) held within a supporting grids (54) within the environment of an aqueous cooled nuclear reactor vessel (32) housing a reactor core, where at least some of the structural forms are coated with or made from a ceramic having a melting point temperature over 1850° C.
摘要:
A control rod for a nuclear boiling water reactor is described. The control rod has a longitudinal centre axis and control rod blades, each control rod blade having a first and a second side and being substantially parallel to the longitudinal center axis. Each control rod blade comprises an absorber material which extends from a first absorber end to a second absorber end, the distance between the first absorber end and the second absorber end defining an active length. The control rod blades are provided with distance means on the first and second sides of the control rod blades, the distance means extending a distance of at least a third of the active length of the control rod blade.
摘要:
The present invention provides a nuclear fuel assembly, where a boron-containing compound is used as a burnable poison and is distributed in a majority of the rods in the assembly. The assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods, each fuel rod containing a plurality of nuclear fuel pellets, wherein at least one fuel pellet in more than 50% of the fuel rods in the fuel assembly comprises a sintered admixture of a metal oxide, metal carbide or metal nitride and a boron-containing compound.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for determining the thickness of at least one layer superimposed on a substrate, at least one of the layers or the substrate being a conductor of electricity. The method includes the steps of generating an electromagnetic alternating field in the vicinity of the outer most layer with a coil in order to cause any currents to be generated in the conductor which act upon the alternating field. The frequency of the alternating field is adjusted to at least two different frequencies and is measured at these frequencies. The thickness of the layers is then determined based on the measurements and the electromagnetic properties of the substrate and the layers.