Patent · US Expired

Liquid-cooled nuclear reactor especially a boiling-water reactor

US4789518A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Pramod Batheja · Erlangen, DE
Claus Goetzmann · Erlangen, DE
Hermann Kumpf
Peter Rau · Leutenbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 16, 1987
Grant date	Dec 6, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 16, 2007

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E30/30
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Liquid-cooled nuclear reactor having a reactor pressure vessel and a reactor core of fuel assemblies received therein, the fuel assemblies being grouped into core cells each having a control rod containing absorber material and connected to a drive mechanism, including a sheetmetal shaft associated with the core cells, respectively, and extending beyond the length of the reactor core by a length at least equal to that of the respective control rod and having a cross section substantially equal to that of the respective core cell, the sheetmetal shaft being formed with longitudinal channels through which the fuel assemblies are loadable and unloadable.

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