GB976467A - Improvements in or relating to the generation of power by the operation of a nuclear reactor - Google Patents

Improvements in or relating to the generation of power by the operation of a nuclear reactor

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GB976467A
GB976467A GB32447/59A GB3244759A GB976467A GB 976467 A GB976467 A GB 976467A GB 32447/59 A GB32447/59 A GB 32447/59A GB 3244759 A GB3244759 A GB 3244759A GB 976467 A GB976467 A GB 976467A
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elements
channel
reached
channels
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GB32447/59A
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John Rodney Dyson Fuller
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Bristol Aerojet Ltd
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Bristol Aerojet Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C19/00—Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
    • G21C19/20—Arrangements for introducing objects into the pressure vessel; Arrangements for handling objects within the pressure vessel; Arrangements for removing objects from the pressure vessel
    • G21C19/205—Interchanging of fuel elements in the core, i.e. fuel shuffling
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E30/00—Energy generation of nuclear origin
    • Y02E30/30—Nuclear fission reactors

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • High Energy & Nuclear Physics (AREA)
  • Monitoring And Testing Of Nuclear Reactors (AREA)

Abstract

976,467. Reactors. BRISTOL AEROJET Ltd. Dec. 20, 1960 [Sept. 23, 1959], No. 32447/59. Drawings to Specification. Heading G6C. A fuel changing programme for a nuclear power reactor consists in that, in each of a repeated cycle of equal periods in at least one period no fuel element changes are made, this period or periods being used for maintenance of the fuelling machines, and in each other period either partly used fuel elements in each of "X" channels, all subject to approximately the same flux intensity, are removed from the channel and replaced in a different order (i.e. axially shuffled), or fully used fuel elements in each of "Y" channels, all subject to approximately the same flux intensity, are removed and replaced by new elements by the fuelling machine, "X" and "Y" being determined such that the working time expended in each of said other periods,at a constant utilization rate of the fuelling machine, is substantially the same. if the number of fuel elements in a fuel channel are divisible by two, then when the elements have reached their half life, the upper and lower halves of the fuel element column are interchanged en bloc so that the two ends of the column become at the middle. If the number of fuel elements in a channel are devisible by three, then when the elements have reached one third of their life, the top third of the element column ismoved en bloc to the bottom of the channel, the other two thirds being lifted to the top of the channel, the process being repeated when the fuel elements have reached two thirds of their life. The Specification describes in detail a fuel changing programme for a graphite moderated power reactor having 1346 fuel channels, each channel containing ten elements.
GB32447/59A 1959-09-23 1959-09-23 Improvements in or relating to the generation of power by the operation of a nuclear reactor Expired GB976467A (en)

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2313744A1 (en) * 1975-04-03 1976-12-31 Gen Atomic Co OPERATION OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR WITH COMBUSTIBLE ELEMENTS STACKED IN COLUMNS, BY TRANSFER OF ELEMENTS BETWEEN COLUMNS
EP0538407A1 (en) * 1990-07-10 1993-04-28 General Electric Company Nuclear reactor with bi-level core

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2313744A1 (en) * 1975-04-03 1976-12-31 Gen Atomic Co OPERATION OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR WITH COMBUSTIBLE ELEMENTS STACKED IN COLUMNS, BY TRANSFER OF ELEMENTS BETWEEN COLUMNS
EP0538407A1 (en) * 1990-07-10 1993-04-28 General Electric Company Nuclear reactor with bi-level core
EP0538407A4 (en) * 1990-07-10 1994-06-08 Gen Electric Nuclear reactor with bi-level core

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