摘要:
Each of cylindrical members composing a fuel spacer of separate cell type is formed at a edge portion thereof with a positioning notch or a positioning projection, which is located just opposite to one of fuel rod supporting projections formed on the inner surface of the cylindrical member. In manufacturing of the fuel spacer, the positioning notches or projections of the cylindrical members are engaged with the positioning projections or recesses formed on fuel spacer assembly jigs for precise and easy positioning of cylindrical members.
摘要:
With an arrangement that the axial distance from the upper end of a first opening area to the upper end of the second opening area is equal to the axial distance from the upper end of a first coupling member to the upper end of a second coupling member, when a spring member is moved upwardly relative to round cells, the upper end of the second coupling member comes into contact with the upper end of the second opening area, and the spring members receives upwardly acting forces from fuel elements. The spring member is thereby prevented from inclining with respect to flow of a coolant. Simultaneously, the upper end of the first coupling member contacts the upper end of the first opening area, and the spring member is stably held in a condition where it is aligned with the direction of the coolant flow. Also, since the axial distance from the lower end of the first opening area to the lower end of the second opening area is smaller than the axial distance from the lower end of the first coupling member to the lower end of the second coupling member, the lower end of the first coupling member does not come into contact with the lower end of the first opening area when the fuel element is inserted. Thus, the friction force produced during passage of the fuel member along the spring member is small and the fuel element can be inserted more easily.
摘要:
The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path. A water rod disposed between the fuel rods each includes an ascending tube path having therein a coolant ascending path having a coolant inlet port opening to a region below the fuel supporting portion, for guiding upward the coolant supplied through the coolant inlet port, and a descending tube having therein a coolant descending path having a coolant delivery port opening to said first coolant path, for guiding downward the coolant guided by said coolant ascending path and discharging the coolant through the coolant delivery port to the first coolant path. The descending tube path is so disposed outside the ascending tube path as to define a gap, through which the coolant inside the first coolant path flows, between it and the ascending tube path.
摘要:
A fuel assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods supported by an upper tie plate and a lower tie plate respectively at each of upper end portion ad lower end portion, and a channel box surrounding a bundle of the fuel rods and the lower tie plate. The fuel assembly forms a natural uranium region at lower end portion of effective fuel length portion. A wall thickness at a lower thick wall region of the channel box is thicker than the wall thickness at a region disposed upwardly from the lower thick wall region and between corner portions of the channel box. An upper end of the lower thick wall region is disposed from an upper side of the lower tie plate and downwardly from an upper end of the natural uranium region. A wall thickness at the corner portion of the channel box is thicker than the wall thickness at a middle portion of the side wall between the corner positions at the region locating upward from the lower thick wall region. The fuel assembly is able to reduce stresses caused in the channel box during an earthquake, and, is able to improve fuel economy.
摘要:
A fuel assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods, a lower tie plate for supporting lower ends of the fuel rods, and a channel box surrounding a bundle of the fuel rods and the circumference of the lower tie plate to thereby define a cooling water leak passage between the lower tie plate and the channel box. The fuel assembly includes a venturi provided in the lower tie plate for generating a force tending to attract the channel box toward the lower tie plate under the action of a leak stream of the cooling water passing through the cooling water leak passage. The fuel assembly also includes an arrangement provided in the lower tie plate for suppressing vibrations of the channel box caused upon an influence of the venturi.
摘要:
The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path. A water rod disposed between the fuel rods each includes an ascending tube path having therein a coolant ascending path having a coolant inlet port opening to a region below the fuel supporting portion, for guiding upward the coolant supplied through the coolant inlet port, and a descending tube having therein a coolant descending path having a coolant delivery port opening to said first coolant path, for guiding downward the coolant guided by said coolant ascending path and discharging the coolant through the coolant delivery port to the first coolant path. The descending tube path is so disposed outside the ascending tube path as to define a gap, through which the coolant inside the first coolant path flows, between it and the ascending tube path.
摘要:
A method of producing a composite nuclear fuel cladding lined with a liner of high purity zirconium characterized in that a raw material of zirconium sponge disposed in a hearth cavity is irradiated with an electron beam while controlling an amount of heat per unit volume (w.sec/mm.sup.3) according to an oxygen removal rate of the raw material determined by oxygen concentration of the raw material and a target oxygen concentration of an ingot for a liner to be refined, and zircaloy cladding is lined with the liner. The hearth cavity has a preferable shape in which the ratio of the cavity surface to the cavity volume is 0.20 mm.sup.-1 or larger.
摘要翻译:一种生产具有高纯度锆衬的复合核燃料包覆层的方法,其特征在于,在控制每单位体积的热量(w·sec)的同时,照射设置在炉床腔中的锆海绵原料 / mm 3),根据由原料的氧浓度确定的原料的氧除去率和待精制衬管的锭的目标氧浓度,并且将锆石覆层与衬垫衬里。 炉膛腔具有其中空腔表面与空腔体积的比率为0.20mm-1或更大的优选形状。
摘要:
The present invention provides a zirconium based alloy member which has very small deformation of elongation and bow occurring due to irradiation growth, a method of manufacturing it, and particularly an channel box for an atomic reactor fuel assembly. A zirconium based alloy plate member having a width of not less than 100 mm and a long length, containing not more than 5 wt % Nb and/or not more 5 wt % Sn, the member having (0001) orientation (Fl value) of hexagonal Zr with respect to longitudinal direction ranging from 0.20 to 0.35, the difference in Fl between the middle and the end being not more than the value calculated from (0.0935.times.Fl-0.00585) and an amount of bow at neutron irradiation of 35 GWd/t which bow occurs in the channel box for a reactor being not more than 2.16 mm.
摘要翻译:本发明提供一种锆基合金构件,其由于照射生长而具有非常小的伸长变形和弓形,其制造方法,特别是用于原子反应堆燃料组件的通道箱。 一种宽度不小于100mm,长度不大于5重量%的Nb和/或不多于5重量%Sn的锆基合金板构件,具有(0001)取向(F1值)为 相对于纵向为0.20〜0.35的六方晶相,中间和末端之间的F1的差不大于由(0.0935xFl-0.00585)计算的值,中子照射下的弓的量为35GWd / t 在弯道出现弯道不大于2.16mm的反应堆。
摘要:
A fuel assembly is provided with a coolant ascending path for making coolant rise and a water rod having a coolant descending path for conducting the coolant.A ratio of a flow area in a coolant inlet port of the smallest in coolant ascending path 13 on the downstream side than large diameter tube portion 3E to a flow area of the largest in the axial direction of coolant ascending path 13 in large diameter tube portion 3E is set to be 0.2-20%.In the normal operation, the declination degree from the liquid level in the coolant ascending path, corresponding to the coolant flow rate of the liquid level formed in the coolant ascending path can be controlled. Further, at the time of the excess the change speed of the liquid level can also be controlled.
摘要:
A fuel assembly, where crystallographic orientations of a channel box are brought into a random distribution; and cladding tubes, spacers and a channel box are made from highly corrosion-resistant, Fe--Ni, zirconium-based alloy, hardened in the (.alpha.+.beta.) phase or .beta.-phase temperature region, has an average discharge burnup level of 50 to 550 GWd/t.