WO1998027557A1 - Gitterförmiger abstandhalter für ein kernreaktorbrennelement und kernreaktorbrennelement - Google Patents
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- WO1998027557A1 WO1998027557A1 PCT/EP1996/005724 EP9605724W WO9827557A1 WO 1998027557 A1 WO1998027557 A1 WO 1998027557A1 EP 9605724 W EP9605724 W EP 9605724W WO 9827557 A1 WO9827557 A1 WO 9827557A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
- G21C3/00—Reactor fuel elements and their assemblies; Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel elements
- G21C3/30—Assemblies of a number of fuel elements in the form of a rigid unit
- G21C3/32—Bundles of parallel pin-, rod-, or tube-shaped fuel elements
- G21C3/34—Spacer grids
- G21C3/356—Spacer grids being provided with fuel element supporting members
- G21C3/3566—Supporting members formed only of elements fixed on the strips
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- G—PHYSICS
- G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
- G21C3/00—Reactor fuel elements and their assemblies; Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel elements
- G21C3/30—Assemblies of a number of fuel elements in the form of a rigid unit
- G21C3/32—Bundles of parallel pin-, rod-, or tube-shaped fuel elements
- G21C3/34—Spacer grids
- G21C3/3416—Spacer grids formed by metallic wires, e.g. springs
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- G—PHYSICS
- G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
- G21C3/00—Reactor fuel elements and their assemblies; Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel elements
- G21C3/30—Assemblies of a number of fuel elements in the form of a rigid unit
- G21C3/32—Bundles of parallel pin-, rod-, or tube-shaped fuel elements
- G21C3/34—Spacer grids
- G21C3/356—Spacer grids being provided with fuel element supporting members
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- 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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- the invention relates to a grid-shaped spacer for a nuclear reactor fuel element according to claim 1 and a nuclear reactor fuel element according to claim 5.
- Grid-shaped spacers are customary which have a single leaf spring in a mesh corner. This leaf spring is parallel to the depth of the lattice mesh, and rigid knobs are assigned to it, which are formed on the mesh walls opposite the leaf spring and against which a fuel rod penetrating the mesh is pressed by the spring. In this way, the fuel rod is non-positively held in the mesh.
- the invention has for its object to develop such a grid-shaped spacer and to avoid the so-called "fretting" by which material in a nuclear reactor in operation is removed from the outside of the cladding tube of the fuel rod in the grid mesh.
- Claims 2 to 4 and 6 are directed to advantageous developments of the spacer or nuclear reactor fuel element.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of a nuclear reactor fuel element for a pressurized water nuclear reactor.
- FIG. 2 shows a top view of a detail from a grid-shaped spacer of the nuclear reactor fuel element according to FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 shows a side view of the grid-shaped spacer corresponding to FIG. 2 with a section along the dash-dotted line III-III in FIG. 2.
- a nuclear reactor fuel element has a fuel element head 2 and a fuel element foot 3. Furthermore, two control rod guide tubes 4 can be seen, none
- Each of the two control rod guide tubes 4 is guided through a grid mesh of grid-shaped spacers 5, which are arranged at a distance from one another between the fuel element head 2 and the fuel element foot 3.
- These control rod guide tubes are open at least at the upper end, which is screwed to the fuel assembly head 2, so that a neutron absorbing control rod can be inserted into these control rod guide tubes 4.
- the grid-shaped spacers 5 are positively held on the outside of the control rod guide tubes 4, e.g. welded.
- a plurality of fuel rods filled with nuclear fuel are arranged parallel to one another and parallel to the control rod guide tubes 4 between the fuel element head 2 and fuel element foot 3.
- Each fuel rod 6 is guided through a grid mesh of the grid-shaped spacers 5 and held non-positively in this grid mesh under the action of leaf springs of the spacer.
- Each fuel rod 6 is at a distance from both the fuel assembly head 2 and the fuel assembly foot 3, so that the length of the fuel rods 6 can adapt to changes in temperature without hindrance. As shown in FIG.
- a lattice-shaped spacer 5 has square lattice meshes, the mesh walls of which are formed by sheet metal webs 11 and 12 of a lattice which penetrate at right angles.
- This additional grid also has square meshes which are formed by additional sheet metal webs 21 and 22 which penetrate at an angle at right angles.
- These additional sheet metal webs 21 and 22 can also be seen in FIG. 3.
- Each additional sheet metal web 21 is parallel to a sheet metal web 11 from which it is at a distance. This sheet metal web 11 and the additional sheet metal web 21 are located flat in a plane defining a first mesh wall of a grid mesh. Likewise, everyone is on the additional sheet metal webs
- the sheet metal webs 11 and 12 thus form a grid
- the additional sheet metal webs 21 and 22 form an additional grid
- the grid and additional grid are arranged at a distance from one another and parallel to one another such that each of the square meshes of the grid is aligned with one of the square meshes of the additional grid .
- the cross-sections of these two square meshes are congruent.
- the lattice-shaped spacer 5 also has four outer sheet metal webs 11a and 12a, which are also arranged upright and of which two outer sheet metal webs 11a each parallel to the sheet metal webs 11 and the sheet metal webs 21 and two other outer sheet metal webs 12a parallel to the sheet metal webs 12 and the additional sheet metal webs 22 are.
- the outer sheet metal webs 11a have the same distance from the sheet metal webs 11 and additional sheet metal webs 21 located next to them as two sheet metal webs 11 or additional sheet metal webs 21 located next to one another, as well the outer sheet metal webs 12a each have the same distance from the sheet metal webs 12 and additional sheet metal webs 22 located next to them as sheet metal webs 12 or additional sheet metal webs 22 located next to one another.
- the sheet metal webs 12 and the additional sheet metal webs 22 pass through an outer sheet metal web 11a at each web end and are welded to this outer metal web 11a with this web end.
- the sheet metal webs 11 and the additional sheet metal webs 21 pass through one of the outer sheet metal webs 12a at both web ends and are welded to this outer sheet metal web 12a with this end.
- the grid meshes on the outer sheet metal webs 11a and 12a of the grid-shaped spacer 5 are therefore also square and have a cross section which is largely congruent with the cross section of the other grid meshes.
- leaf springs 14 and 15 form a common sleeve 16 with a square cross section at each of its two ends. In each corner of this square cross-section there is a slot 18 and 19 parallel to the leaf springs 14 and 15 in the sleeve 16 at each sleeve end.
- a sheet metal web 11 runs through two slots 18 and 19 located in opposite corners of the cross-section at each spring end and 12 and an additional sheet metal web 21 and 22 at the other end of the spring. These sheet metal webs and additional sheet metal webs therefore hold the leaf springs 14 and 15 in a rotationally secure manner.
- each of one of four grid meshes of the grid-shaped spacer 5 to which the enforcement points of two sheet metal webs 11 and 12 and two additional sheet metal webs 21 and 22 are common mesh corners, one of the four is located Pairs of leaf springs 14 and 15. These four pairs of leaf springs 14 and 15 are with the sleeve 16 located at one spring end on the grid formed from the sheet metal webs 11 and 12 and with the sleeve 16 at the other spring end on the additional grid from the additional sheet metal webs 21 and 22 held.
- Each enforcement point is located at the intersection of the diagonals of the cross section of the sleeve 16 at one of the two spring ends.
- the sleeves 16 on the two spring ends of leaf springs 14 and 15, which are located in the four mesh corners of a square grid mesh of the grid-shaped spacer 5, through which a control rod guide tube 4 is guided, are open laterally in this grid mesh, so that in this grid mesh no leaf springs are provided with the control rod guide tube 4. Instead, the grid-shaped spacer 5 is positively held on the control rod guide tube 4 in this grid mesh, i.e. welded to this control rod guide tube.
- the pairs held in the two meshes with this common mesh corner are made of parallel Leaf springs 14 and 15 with the spring ends not only on the sheet metal web and the additional sheet metal web, which is located between these two meshes and runs through a slot on the respective spring end, but also fastened to the outer metal web, which the two spring ends reach through and on which the sheet web and the additional sheet web are fastened, which are located between the two stitches.
- this grid mesh is in each case on the outer corner see a single pair of parallel leaf springs 14 and 15 with both spring ends arranged parallel to the mesh depth.
- the two spring ends reach through both the one and the other of the outer sheet metal webs 11a and 12a meeting in this outer corner, on which these spring ends are held.
- the fuel rod 6 is nowhere against a rigid knob of a sheet metal web or against a sheet metal web itself.
- the non-positive holding of the fuel rod in the mesh is strongly damped against vibration, so that no "fretting" can occur.
- FIG 1 FIG 2 FIG. 3
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PCT/EP1996/005724 WO1998027557A1 (de) | 1996-12-19 | 1996-12-19 | Gitterförmiger abstandhalter für ein kernreaktorbrennelement und kernreaktorbrennelement |
KR1019990705247A KR20000057538A (ko) | 1996-12-19 | 1996-12-19 | 원자로 연료 엘리먼트용 격자형 스페이서 및 원자로 연료 엘리먼트 |
JP52796197A JP2001504935A (ja) | 1996-12-19 | 1996-12-19 | 原子炉燃料集合体用の格子状スペーサおよび原子炉燃料集合体 |
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US3966550A (en) * | 1971-03-18 | 1976-06-29 | Atlantic Richfield Company | Reactor fuel assemblies |
DE3019175A1 (de) * | 1979-05-21 | 1980-11-27 | Gen Electric | Brennstoffkassette |
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- 1996-12-19 WO PCT/EP1996/005724 patent/WO1998027557A1/de not_active Application Discontinuation
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DE1564434A1 (de) * | 1966-08-25 | 1970-01-22 | Nukem Gmbh | Abstandshalter fuer Brennelemente mit einer Vielzahl von Brennstoffstaeben |
US3966550A (en) * | 1971-03-18 | 1976-06-29 | Atlantic Richfield Company | Reactor fuel assemblies |
US3890196A (en) * | 1971-07-07 | 1975-06-17 | Atomic Energy Authority Uk | Nuclear reactor fuel element assembly spacer grid and method of making |
US3904475A (en) * | 1972-01-19 | 1975-09-09 | Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co | Spring spacer device for resiliently supporting nuclear fuel rods |
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