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公开(公告)号:US20170301412A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15477794
申请日:2017-04-03
申请人: TerraPower, LLC
发明人: Charles E. Ahlfeld , Thomas M. Burke , Tyler S. Ellis , John Rogers Gilleland , Jonatan Hejzlar , Pavel Hejzlar , Roderick A. Hyde , David G. McAlees , Jon D. McWhirter , Ashok Odedra , Robert C. Petroski , Nicholas W. Touran , Joshua C. Walter , Kevan D. Weaver , Thomas Allan Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Lowell L. Wood , George B. Zimmerman
CPC分类号: G21C1/024 , G21C1/026 , G21C1/03 , G21C3/322 , G21C7/00 , G21C15/06 , G21C19/205 , Y02E30/34 , Y02E30/35 , Y02E30/38
摘要: Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.
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公开(公告)号:US20170301420A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15584868
申请日:2017-05-02
申请人: TerraPower, LLC
发明人: Charles E. Ahlfeld , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , David G. McAlees , Jon D. McWhirter , Nathan P. Myhrvold , Ashok Odedra , Clarence T. Tegreene , Thomas A. Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Victoria Y.H. Wood , Lowell L. Wood , George B. Zimmerman
CPC分类号: G21C7/32 , G21C1/026 , G21C3/02 , G21C3/322 , G21C3/326 , G21C17/10 , Y02E30/34 , Y02E30/38 , Y02E30/39
摘要: A nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system. The flow control assembly is coupled to a nuclear fission module capable of producing a traveling burn wave at a location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly controls flow of a fluid in response to the location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly comprises a flow regulator subassembly configured to be operated according to an operating parameter associated with the nuclear fission module. In addition, the flow regulator subassembly is reconfigurable according to a predetermined input to the flow regulator subassembly. Moreover, the flow control assembly comprises a carriage subassembly coupled to the flow regulator subassembly for adjusting the flow regulator subassembly to vary fluid flow into the nuclear fission module.
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