Method of operating a nuclear power plant

    公开(公告)号:US11875906B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17950830

    申请日:2022-09-22

    发明人: David Leblanc

    摘要: The present relates to the integration of the primary functional elements of graphite moderator and reactor vessel and/or primary heat exchangers and/or control rods into an integral molten salt nuclear reactor (IMSR). Once the design life of the IMSR is reached, for example, in the range of 3 to 10 years, it is disconnected, removed and replaced as a unit. The spent IMSR functions as the medium or long term storage of the radioactive graphite and/or heat exchangers and/or control rods and/or fuel salt contained in the vessel of the IMSR. The present also relates to a nuclear reactor that has a buffer salt surrounding the nuclear vessel. During normal operation of the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor operates at a temperature that is lower than the melting point of the buffer salt and the buffer salt acts as a thermal insulator. Upon loss of external cooling, the temperature of the nuclear reactor increases and melts the buffer salt, which can then transfer heat from the nuclear core to a cooled containment vessel.

    SLIMM-Scalable Liquid Metal Cooled Small Modular Reactor
    8.
    发明申请
    SLIMM-Scalable Liquid Metal Cooled Small Modular Reactor 审中-公开
    SLIMM可扩展液态金属冷却小型模块化反应堆

    公开(公告)号:US20160329113A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-10

    申请号:US15102169

    申请日:2014-12-05

    申请人: STC.UNM

    摘要: The present invention provides a modular nuclear reactor system comprising a reactor pressure vessel having a lower section having a first wall and a second wall and an upper section having a first wall and a second wall. The reactor includes a chimney with an attached heat exchanger. First and second passageways create a circulation loop wherein heated heat transfer fluid circulates up from the reactor core, through the chimney, through an upper plenum and downwardly past the heat exchanger, into a lower plenum and back into the core.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种模块式核反应堆系统,其包括反应堆压力容器,其具有具有第一壁和第二壁的下部,以及具有第一壁和第二壁的上部。 反应器包括具有附接的热交换器的烟囱。 第一和第二通道产生循环回路,其中加热的传热流体从反应堆堆芯向上循环通过烟囱,通过上部通风室,并向下通过热交换器,进入下部增压室并返回到芯中。

    PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR FUEL ASSEMBLY
    10.
    发明申请
    PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR FUEL ASSEMBLY 有权
    加压水反应堆燃料总成

    公开(公告)号:US20160093407A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-31

    申请号:US14495957

    申请日:2014-09-25

    发明人: Jin Liu

    IPC分类号: G21C7/20

    摘要: An elongated control rod guide thimble for a nuclear reactor having a tube-in-tube dashpot design that has circumferential slots in the dashpot walls that align with spaced openings in the guide thimble sheath. The dashpot tube has an end plug with a threaded opening extending axially therethrough which is captured by a thimble screw that extend through an opening in the bottom nozzle and sandwiches an end plug attached to the guide thimble sheath between the dashpot tube end plug and the bottom nozzle.

    摘要翻译: 用于具有管内缓冲器设计的核反应堆的细长控制杆导向套筒,其在缓冲器壁中具有与引导套管中的间隔开的开口对准的周向狭槽。 缓冲器管具有一个带有螺纹孔的端塞,其轴向穿过其中,该螺纹开口由套管螺钉捕获,所述套筒螺纹延伸穿过底部喷嘴中的开口,并将连接到导向套管的端塞夹在缓冲器管端塞和底部 喷嘴。