摘要:
An initial charge core of a fast breeder and a method of renewing fuel in the initial charge core. The initial charge core comprises a driver core region containing a fissile material, an external blanket region containing a fertile material and surrounding the driver core region, and an internal blanket region disposed within the driver core region and containing a fertile material. The axial thickness of the internal blanket region is greater at its central portion that at the peripheral portion thereof. The internal blanket region is enriched with the fissile material. The degree of enrichment in the internal blanket region is greater than that in the driver core region.
摘要:
A fuel assembly including a plurality of fuel rods and water rods. The fuel rods are arranged with a predetermined pitch and two water rods are disposed adjacent to each other in a diagonal direction of the fuel assembly. More particularly, the fuel rods are arranged in a lattice of nine rows by nine columns and the two water rods are disposed inside a region corresponding to a space sufficient for disposing seven fuel rods at the center of the fuel assembly. Each of the water rods has an outer diameter greater than the pitch of the fuel rods.
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 fuel assembly of the present invention comprises a plurality of fuel rods which are held by an upper tie plate and lower tie plate at the ends thereof and a moderating rod which is arranged between the fuel rods and held by the lower tie plate at its lower end. The fuel rods are arranged in a lattice form having 9 rows and 9 columns, and the moderating rod contains a passage for a coolant and has a cruciate cross-sectional form. The ratio A.sub.M /A.sub.C of the area A.sub.M of a moderator region in the moderating rod in the cross-sectional plane in which the moderator is present to the area A.sub.C of the coolant passages in said fuel assembly is within the range of 0.07 to 0.11, and the area A.sub.M is 75% or more of the total area of the fuel lattice units in which none of the fuel rods is arranged, but the moderating rod is arranged.
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.
摘要:
A core construction for a nuclear reactor having a multiplicity of fuel cells forming a core in which each fuel cell includes four fuel assemblies arranged in adjacent relationship and one control rod insertable into a position surrounded by the four fuel assemblies. The fuel cells includes first fuel cells each having a relatively high cell mean infinite neutron multiplication factor and including one fuel assembly containing a burnable poison, and second fuel cells each having a relatively low cell mean infinite neutron multiplication factor and including no fuel assembly containing a burnable poison. The first fuel cells are arranged both in a central zone of the core disposed within about one-half the core radius from the center of the core and in a circumferential zone of the core outside the central zone. The second fuel cells are arranged only in the central zone and no second fuel cells are arranged in the circumferential zone. Only the second fuel cells provide control cells in which the control rods are operative to adjust core reactivity changes and power distribution changes during normal power operation of the reactor.
摘要:
A boiling water type nuclear reactor adapted to be operated at a void quality (weight ratio of vapor in the coolant) of coolant at the core outlet of 17% or higher. By adopting this level of void quality, a void quality exceeding 8.5% is available at least in the upper half region of the core which in turn provides a void fraction of 66% or higher. Consequently, it is possible to reduce the enrichment of the fuel, so as to allow a more efficient use of the fuel. At the same time, due to the reduced power generating rate, the range over which the flow rate of coolant is controlled is widened, so that it becomes possible to change the reactivity solely by controlling the flow rate of the coolant. It is therefore possible to operate the reactor over whole operation cycle with its control rods fully withdrawn.
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.