摘要:
Apparatus comprising a two layered composite with an internal core of zirconium or zirconium alloy which retains tritium, and an adherent nickel outer layer which acts as a protective and selective window for passage of the tritium.
摘要:
A fuel-pellet composition for use in fast breeder reactors. Uranium carbide particles are mixed with a powder of uranium-plutonium carbides having a stable microstructure. The resulting mixture is formed into fuel pellets. The pellets thus produced exhibit a relatively low propensity to swell while maintaining a high density.
摘要:
A nuclear fuel pin is formed of an elongated metallic tube, closed at each end, containing stacked fuel pellets and material including little, or no, fissionable material, and formed into porous, or bubbled, microspheres placed in the annulus between the pellets and the internal wall of the tube.
摘要:
A nuclear reactor-fuel element with cylindrical fuel rods and a fuel element skeleton formed of a head and foot member and cylindrical control rod-guide tubes connecting the members includes a plurality of mesh-forming spacing holder-grids for the fuel rods fastened to the guide tubes, the control rod-guide tubes being received respectively in the mesh formed by the spacing holder-grids, and flow guide means in vicinity of at least one of the spacing holder-grids largely closing, from a flow-technology standpoint, the cross section of the respective mesh surrounding the guide tube received therein.
摘要:
A fuel assembly for a nuclear fast neutron reactor comprises a shroud having an upstream head piece and a downstream tail piece. The shroud houses fuel elements having portions filled with fissionable and raw materials and plenums serving as accumulation reservoirs for fission gases evolved in the fuel. The fission-gas plenums are divided into a central and peripheral groups. At least one of these groups is positioned in the tail piece of the fuel assembly shroud downstream of the coolant inlet ports before the portions filled with fissionable and raw materials.
摘要:
A nuclear fuel element comprises an elongated tube having upper and lower end plugs fixed to both ends thereof and nuclear fuel pellets contained within the tube. The fuel pellets are held against the lower end plug by a spring which is supported by a setting structure. The setting structure is maintained at a proper position at the middle of the tube by a wedge effect caused by spring force exerted by the spring against a set of balls coacting with a tapered member of the setting structure thereby wedging the balls against the inner wall of the tube and the setting structure is moved free by pushing with a push bar against the spring force so as to release the wedge effect.
摘要:
A thermionic device for converting nuclear energy into electrical energy comprising a tubular anode spaced from and surrounding a cylindrical cathode, the cathode having an outer emitting surface of ruthenium, and nuclear fuel on the inner cylindrical surface. The nuclear fuel is a ceramic composition of fissionable material in a metal matrix. An axial void is provided to collect and contain fission product gases.
摘要:
A method and system for fuel rod pressurization and for verifying when pressurization of a fuel rod containing nuclear fuel has taken place. One end of the loaded fuel rod is inserted into a pressure chamber in sealed relation thereto, whereupon the chamber is evacuated to remove the air present. Then the chamber is pressurized with an inert gas. The fuel rod then is drilled to provide an opening in the end of the fuel rod in the chamber, whereupon the rod is pressurized with the inert gas present in the chamber. Acoustic transducers are attached to the fuel rod at predetermined locations externally of the chamber for monitoring any noise which occurs during the pressurization process, which is transmitted through the metal walls of the rod to the transducers. The transducers generate electrical signals which are proportional to the amplitude of the noise sensed and by observing the signals a calibration of the activity going on can be maintained. A pressure transducer is connected with the pressure chamber for monitoring the status of the pressure in the chamber and providing an output signal which is proportional thereto. The acoustic and pressure signals are processed through appropriate electronic circuitry and recorded in analog and/or digital fashion for providing a comparative indication as to the status of when the necessary steps and activities for pressurization of the fuel rod have been accomplished.
摘要:
The present invention is based on the discovery that radiation-induced voids which occur during fast neutron irradiation can be controlled by small but effective additions of titanium and silicon. The void-suppressing effect of these metals in combination is demonstrated and particularly apparent in austenitic stainless steels.