CN108369826B - Lead-cooled reactor shutdown rod - Google Patents

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CN108369826B
CN108369826B CN201680073929.4A CN201680073929A CN108369826B CN 108369826 B CN108369826 B CN 108369826B CN 201680073929 A CN201680073929 A CN 201680073929A CN 108369826 B CN108369826 B CN 108369826B
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Abstract

A shutdown rod for a liquid lead or lead bismuth cooled nuclear reactor capable of being passively shutdown after placement of the shutdown rod over a core, comprising an array of ceramic boride absorber particles enclosed in a steel cladding tube, wherein the cross-sectional area of the steel cladding tube comprises at least 10% of the shutdown rod cross-sectional area, the shutdown rod having an average density at 400 ℃ of greater than 10.7g/cm3

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Lead-cooled reactor shutdown rod
Technical Field
The present invention relates generally to the field of nuclear reactors and reactor safety, and in particular to a shutdown rod for lead-cooled and lead-bismuth cooled reactors.
Background
Most nuclear reactors use shutdown rods containing neutron absorbing materials in order to trigger controlled nuclear fission chain reactions or to rapidly terminate controlled or uncontrollable chain reactions of such fission. During the operation of the reactor, the shutdown rod is arranged above or below the reactor core, and when the operation needs to be stopped, the shutdown rod vertically moves until the shutdown rod absorbs enough neutrons to enable the reactor to be in a subcritical state permanently. The insertion mechanism may be active, for example using an engine, hydraulics or a gas expansion system. In the case of an insertion mechanism based on the action of gravity, the shutdown can be accomplished in a so-called passive mode. Modern reactor designs desire the ability to shut down the reactor using passive mechanisms (e.g., gravity) for safety reasons.
In nuclear power reactors using thermal neutron energy spectra, boron carbide, enriched boron carbide, cadmium, silver indium cadmium alloy, or hafnium may be used as the neutron absorbing material in the shutdown rods. However, in fast neutron spectral reactors, the neutron absorbing materials considered are limited to boron and europium compounds, since the ability of other elements to absorb fast neutrons is much poorer than for boron and europium compounds [ Mahagin 1979, Dunner 1984 ].
In fast neutron spectrum reactors cooled with lead or lead bismuth, shutdown rods comprising boron carbide, europium oxide or europium hexaboride must be placed under the reactor core if passive shutdown is to be achieved by gravity (or rather buoyancy), since the density of the above-mentioned absorbers is much lower than that of the coolant. This location increases the height of the reactor vessel and makes the design of the core support structure more complex. Conversely, in order to place the shutdown rods above the core, the density of the absorbent material must be significantly higher than that of the liquid lead or lead bismuth, in order to achieve passive shutdown by gravity.
It may be noted that hafnium diboride based absorber materials are well known in the art. For example, US 3,565,762 issued in 1971 discloses an absorbent element for use in a nuclear reactor having a core of refractory borides of hafnium diboride selected primarily from zirconium, vanadium, hafnium and tantalum. US 6,334,963 issued in 2002 discloses a neutron absorbing material which is a composite material comprising a hafnium diboride and a hafnium dioxide.
Disclosure of Invention
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved shutdown rod for a liquid lead or lead bismuth cooled reactor that can be moved to shutdown after the shutdown rod is placed over the core. The shutdown rod is mainly composed of a row of ceramic particles sealed in a steel cladding tube.
This and other objects are achieved by the aspects and embodiments defined in the independent claims. Further preferred embodiments are specified in the dependent claims.
In a first aspect, the invention relates to a shutdown rod for a liquid lead or lead bismuth cooled nuclear reactor, said shutdown rod comprising an array of ceramic boride absorbent particles enclosed in a steel cladding tube, whereinThe cross-sectional area of the ladle shell tube at least comprises 10% of the cross-sectional area of the shutdown rod, and the average density of the shutdown rod at 400 ℃ is at least 10.7g/cm3
According to a first embodiment of said aspect, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of ReB2(rhenium diboride). Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
According to a second embodiment of said aspect, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of hexagonal Rebe2Phase (W, Re) B2(tungsten diboride-rhenium). Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
According to a third embodiment, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of OsB2 (osmium diboride). Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
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The invention and its embodiments will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a shutdown rod or canister of an embodiment.
Detailed Description
Before the present invention is described, it is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting, since the scope of the present invention will be limited only by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.
It must be noted that, as used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
The expression "consisting essentially of … …" is intentionally used in the present invention and claims, rather than the conventional closed expression "consisting of … …", in order to emphasize that the overrule property, i.e., reaching 10.7g/cm at a temperature of about 400 ℃, is satisfied if it is satisfied3Small or trace amounts of other substances and impurities may be present.
The invention aims to provide a shutdown rod for a liquid lead or lead bismuth cooled reactor, which can be moved to shutdown after the shutdown rod is placed above a reactor core. The shutdown rod is mainly composed of an array of ceramic boride absorbent particles enclosed in a steel cladding tube. The cross-sectional area of the ladle casing tube comprises at least 10% of the cross-sectional area of the shutdown rod.
FIG. 1 shows a shutdown rod or cartridge (A) with an absorber rod (B) of an embodiment of the present invention. The ceramic boride (1) is shown as a dot in the figure, and the steel cladding tube (2) is shown as a dotted surface in the figure. The shutdown rods or drums shown here have a hexagonal cross-section and comprise 37 absorber rods. However, this is only an example. The shutdown rods or barrels may have different shapes depending on the design of the reactor core. The shutdown canister may also contain a different number of absorber rods, and these may be arranged in different configurations, provided that the overrule characteristic, i.e. 10.7g/cm at a temperature of about 400 ℃, is still met3The minimum density of (c).
In a preferred embodiment, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of ReB2(rhenium diboride) and is made with a porosity of less than 11%. Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
In another preferred embodiment, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of (W, Re) B having a tungsten to rhenium mole ratio of 48% or less2(tungsten diboride-rhenium) and is made with a porosity of less than 8%. Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
In a third preferred embodiment, the ceramic absorber particles consist essentially of OsB2(osmium diboride) and is made with a porosity of less than 12%. Preferably, boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
By making ReB2, (W, Re) B with sufficiently low porosity2Or OsB2The particles can make the effective density of the shutdown rod containing the ladle shell tube higher than that of liquid lead or lead bismuth at the operating temperature. The density of the latter two is about 10.6g/cm for liquid lead3The liquid lead bismuth is about 10.2g/cm3。ReB2,(W0.48,Re0.52)B2Or OsB2Respectively has a theoretical density (at 0 porosity and room temperature) of 12.7g/cm3,12.3g/cm3And 12.9g/cm3. However, the requirement of this application is that the resulting shutdown rod has a density of at least 10.7g/cm at a temperature of about 400 deg.C3
Manufacture of HfB with porosity less than 5%2Particles, the density of which will be higher than that of liquid lead. However, hafnium diboride is not a suitable material for current use when considering that the average density of the absorber rods is significantly lower than that of the bare particles.
It may also be noted that pure tungsten diboride is only present in the hexagonal AIB2In phase, its density ratio exists in high density hexagonal ReB2Much lower in phase. Therefore, tungsten diboride must dissolve into ReB2In order to obtain a sufficiently high density, the object of the present invention is achieved. The solubility limit of tungsten diboride in rhenium diboride has been determined to be 48% [ Lech 2014]。
Rhenium, although costly, is less than 90% enriched boron carbide, which is commonly used for shutdown rod applications in fast reactors. Osmium is also expensive and the use of OsB is considered where the highest possible density difference between the shutdown rods and the coolant is required2
Shutdown rods according to any aspect and embodiment presented herein and any combination thereof provide the possibility of constructing shutdown systems, in particular passive shutdown systems with high density and excellent shutdown reactivity. This is important in both normal and safe shutdown situations. Further advantages will be clear to the skilled person from a study of the examples and the appended claims.
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In this example, the trip equivalent (i.e., the reduction in reactivity) of a lead-cooled closed reactor was calculated [ Wallenius 2014 ]. The calculation of the reactor shutdown reactivity (pcm, one hundred thousand) due to the insertion of three reactor shutdown elements for each preferred embodiment of the present invention is by means of Serpent Monte-Carlo code (Serpent is a three-dimensional continuous energy Monte Carlo reactor physical burnup calculation code developed in VTT technical research center in finland since 2004, OECD/NEA database and RSICC are distributing publicly available Serpent 1 since 2009, and later versions of code can be provided to registered users upon request).
It is assumed that boron in each boride compound is enriched to 96% in boron-10. As shown in Table 1, the shutdown reactivity of the presently disclosed shutdown rods is 100-200pcm less than that of the reference boron carbide rods, but still meets the requirement of making the core subcritical at least 1000 pcm.
TABLE 1 comparison of lead-cooled closed reactor shutdown reactivity for different neutron absorbers
Absorbent material B4C ReB2 (W,Re)B2 OsB2
Particle Density (g/cm)3) 2.1 11.2 11.2 11.2
Reactor shut reactivity (pcm) -1350 -1250 -1230 -1180
Without further elaboration, it is believed that one skilled in the art can, using the present description including the examples, utilize the present invention to its fullest extent. Moreover, while the invention has been described herein in terms of preferred embodiments, which constitute the best mode presently known to the inventors, it should be understood that various changes and modifications as would be obvious to one having the ordinary skill in this art may be made without departing from the scope of the invention which is set forth in the claims appended hereto.
Reference to the literature
P.Dünner et al.,Absorber materials for control rod systems of fast breeder reactors,Journal of Nuclear Materials,124(1984)185.
A.T.Lech,Synthesis,Structure,and Properties of Refractory Hard-Metal Borides,PhD thesis,UCLA,2014(Permalink:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hv5m731)
D.E.Mahagin,Fast reactor neutron absorber materials,HEDL-SA-1690-FP,Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory,1979.
J.Wallenius and S.Bortot,SEALER:A very small lead-cooled fast reactor for commercial energy production in off-grid communities.In Proc.3rd International Technical Meeting on Small Reactors,Ottawa,Canada,November 7,2014.

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1. A shutdown rod for a liquid lead or lead bismuth cooled nuclear reactor comprising an array of ceramic boride absorber particles enclosed in a steel cladding tube, wherein the cross sectional area of the steel cladding tube comprises at least 10% of the cross sectional area of the shutdown rod and the shutdown rod has an average density at 400 ℃ of at least 10.7g/cm3The ceramic boride absorbent particles consist essentially of rhenium diboride, or hexagonal ReB2Tungsten-rhenium diboride, or osmium diboride of a phase.
2. The shutdown rod of claim 1, wherein boron is enriched to at least 90% in boron-10.
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