摘要:
A CT imaging method and apparatus in which an object is to be imaged by the CT apparatus using an X-ray or radiation, and a tomographic image of the object is obtained, wherein the object includes a reference portion. The processing the tomographic image is processed and a relative positional relation between a reference coordinate system of the object and a coordinate system of the CT apparatus is obtained. The object is imaged by the CT apparatus, and based on the relative positional relation, a tomographic image of a desired position of the object is obtained.
摘要:
A CT imaging method determines geometric features (information representing geometries) of contact surfaces between markers and an object from tomographic images obtained by imaging the object attached with the markers on its reference surfaces using a CT apparatus, determines from the geometric features a positional relation between a reference coordinate system of the object and a coordinate system of the CT apparatus, and, based on the positional relation, produces tomographic images (bit-map data) of a desired portion of the object.
摘要:
A fuel assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods which contain nuclear fuel material inside, a lower tie plate which holds the lower end of the fuel rods and has a path inside to lead coolant between the fuel rods, and a channel box which encloses a bundle of the fuel rods. An orifice, in which a plurality of round rods are arranged to cross the coolant flow path, is installed in a through hole at a side wall of the lower tie plate by connecting to the side wall. Orifice coefficient of the orifice becomes large at small flow rate of coolant which supplied to the fuel assembly, and becomes small at large flow rate of coolant. By using the fuel assembly described above, void fraction in a gap region between fuel assemblies can be altered during beginning and end of an operation cycle of the nuclear reactor.
摘要:
A fuel assembly has a plurality of first fuel rods each of which contains nuclear fuel material but does not contain burnable poison, and a plurality of second fuel rods each of which includes nuclear fuel material and burnable poison. The amount of burnable poison in a lower region of the fuel assembly is smaller than that in an upper region thereof. When each of the second fuel rods is divided into an upper region and a lower region, a region of the divided regions in the second fuel rods containing a maximum burnable poison concentration Gmax and a region of the divided regions in the second fuel rods containing a minimum burnable poison concentration Gmin are located in the lower region of the fuel assembly. The burnable poison concentration of the upper region of each second fuel rod is between Gmax and Gmin. The fuel assembly may moderate a maximum linear heat rating with an increased spectral shift effect.
摘要:
The invention provides a fuel assembly comprising a plurality of fuel rods containing a fissionable material and a plurality of moderator rods filled with a burnable poison and a metal hydride as a solid moderator material. All of the burnable poison in the fuel assembly is filled in the moderator rods, and number of the moderator rods is at least 4 and not more than 15% of total number of the fuel rods and the moderator rods.
摘要:
A method of operating a nuclear reactor adapted to use cross-shaped control rods. The control rods are grouped into a plurality of groups having a first group consisting of a control rod located at the center of the core, a second group consisting of 8 control rods surrounding the control rod of the first group, a third group consisting of control rods located adjacent to and outside of the control rods of the second group, and other groups determined successively in the same manner as in the third group. During the operation period other than the period in which the number of the control rods to be inserted for realizing the critical condition of said nuclear reactor is less than 6, the nuclear reactor is operated with control rod patterns in which the inserted control rods are selected from control rods of alternate or every other groups of said groups so as to include at least a pair of control rods which are located in a similar manner to that of the KNIGHT's movement on a chess board.
摘要:
A method of operating a nuclear reactor wherein the reactor is operated for more than 50% of its operating period with the control rod patterns in which, in the central region of the reactor core accounting for at least 50% thereof, the control rods inserted from the bottom of the reactor core are at the depths of between 16/24 and 21/24 of the height of the reactor core with eight control rods surrounding each of said inserted control rods being fully withdrawn.
摘要:
A construction of boiling water reactor core having a plurality of fuel assemblies. Some of fuel assemblies have an infinite multiplication factor which is larger at their upper regions than at their lower portions, so that the effective multiplication factor of the reactor core is larger at the upper portion than at the lower portion of the reactor core under an equal condition. Consequently, a relatively flat axial power distribution is established even under an uneven axial void distribution.
摘要:
A fuel assembly suitable for use in boiling water reactor. The fuel assembly has a specific pattern of distribution of enrichment, so that the upper region of the assembly has a larger infinite multiplication factor than that of the lower region. In an example, the distribution of enrichment is such that the upper region has a mean enrichment larger than that of the lower region, while, in another example, the mean enrichment is maintained constant over the length of the assembly but the difference of enrichments between the central and peripheral portions of a plane normal to the axis of the assembly is made smaller at the upper region than at the lower region.
摘要:
In a light water moderation type nuclear reactor with the once-through method, the reactor core is divided into a central area and a peripheral area by a partition member, a first fuel assembly is arranged in the central area (high conversion area) and a second fuel assembly is arranged in the peripheral area. The ratio (r.sub.H/U) of the number of hydrogen atoms to that of uranium atoms in the central area is smaller than that of the ratio in the peripheral area and the second fuel assembly in the peripheral area is formed of fuel rods of the first fuel assembly having been previously burned in the central area and moved into the peripheral area. The plutonium production increases and uranium consumption is reduced during the first half of the lifetime of the fuel rods in the high conversion area with the take-up burn up increasing during the second half of the lifetime of the fuel rods in the burner area.