Nuclear reactor with a self-supporting core

    公开(公告)号:US11227694B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-18

    申请号:US16097472

    申请日:2017-05-04

    申请人: Luciano Cinotti

    发明人: Luciano Cinotti

    摘要: A nuclear reactor is provided that comprises a vessel that houses a core, comprising a bundle of fuel elements, and immersed in a primary cooling fluid of the core; the fuel elements extend along respective longitudinal and parallel axes and are mechanically supported by respective heads joined to each other and joined to an anchoring structure by support devices acting between adjacent fuel elements, or acting between fuel elements situated on the periphery of the core and the anchoring structure, and which constitute an integral part of the heads of the fuel elements.

    Hybrid molten salt reactor with energetic neutron source
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    发明授权
    Hybrid molten salt reactor with energetic neutron source 有权
    具有能量中子源的混合熔盐反应器

    公开(公告)号:US09368244B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-14

    申请号:US14259734

    申请日:2014-04-23

    摘要: In an embodiment, a hybrid molten salt reactor includes a source of energetic neutrons, the energetic neutrons having a typical energy per neutron of 14 MeV or greater, a critical molten salt reactor, and a molten salt comprising a dissolved mixture of fissile actinides and fertile actinides. The molten salt circulates in a loop through the reactor vessel and around the source of energetic neutrons. The fissile actinides and fertile actinides sustain an exothermic nuclear reaction in which the actinides are irradiated by the energetic neutrons, the energetic neutrons inducing subcritical nuclear fission, and undergo critical nuclear fission when circulating through the critical molten salt reactor. A portion of the daughter neutrons generated by nuclear reactions are captured by the fertile actinides in the molten salt and induce transmutation of the fertile actinides into fissile actinides and sustain critical fission chain reactions in the molten salt reactor.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施方案中,混合熔盐反应器包括能量中子源,能量中子具有每个中子14MeV或更大的典型能量,临界熔盐反应器和包含溶解的裂变锕系混合物的熔融盐 锕系元素 熔盐在循环中循环通过反应器容器和围绕能量中子源。 可裂变锕系元素和可怜的锕系维持放热核反应,其中锕系元素被能量中子,能量中子诱导亚临界核裂变辐射,并在循环通过临界熔盐反应器时经历临界核裂变。 通过核反应产生的一部分子中子由熔融盐中的可食锕系元素捕获,并诱导可育锕系元素转变为裂变锕系元素,并维持熔盐反应器中的临界裂变链反应。

    Molten salt reactor that includes multiple fuel wedges that define fuel channels

    公开(公告)号:US10283223B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US14859100

    申请日:2015-09-18

    发明人: M. Sheldon Hansen

    摘要: Systems and methods for providing a molten salt reactor can include a graphite reactor core that defines an internal space, with multiple fuel wedges being received in the internal space, and with the wedges each defining a fuel channel extending from a first end to a second end of each of the wedges. The reactor can further include a fuel pin rod that defines an internal fuel conduit and that is disposed between at least two of the wedges. The reactor core can also define a fuel ingress port and a fuel egress port. The reactor core can further be rotatably received within a reactor housing such that the ports are configured to become at least one of more occluded and less occluded as the reactor core rotates.