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公开(公告)号:US20240355491A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-24
申请号:US18756832
申请日:2024-06-27
Applicant: Oklo Inc.
Inventor: Jacob DeWitte , Patrick Everett
Abstract: A nuclear reactor power system includes: a reactor core comprising a plurality of nuclear fuel elements, each nuclear fuel element comprising: a first cooling channel passing through the nuclear fuel element; and a second cooling channel passing through the nuclear fuel element and fluidly isolated from the first cooling channel; a first cooling system configured to transport a first fluid coolant through the reactor core, the first cooling system fluidly connected to the first cooling channel of each nuclear fuel element; and a second cooling system configured to transport a second fluid coolant through the reactor core, the second cooling system fluidly connected to the second cooling channel of each nuclear fuel element. A direction of first fluid coolant flow through the first cooling channel is the same as a direction of second fluid coolant flow through the second cooling channel.
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公开(公告)号:US20180090237A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15565164
申请日:2016-04-12
Applicant: Claudio Filippone
Inventor: Claudio Filippone
CPC classification number: G21D5/02 , G21C1/30 , G21C1/32 , G21C3/045 , G21C3/06 , G21C3/16 , G21C3/322 , G21C7/30 , G21C11/02 , G21C15/04 , G21C15/06 , Y02E30/40
Abstract: Various embodiments of a transportable nuclear power generator having a plurality of subcritical power modules are disclosed. Each of the plurality of subcritical power modules includes a fuel cartridge, a power conversion unit, and a housing substantially enclosing the fuel cartridge and the power conversion unit. The fuel cartridge contains a nuclear fuel and has a proximal end and a distal end. The power conversion unit includes a compressor turbine disposed at the proximal end of the fuel cartridge and a power turbine disposed at the distal end of the fuel cartridge. At least one of the plurality of subcritical power modules is movable with respect to the other of the plurality of subcritical power modules between a first position and a second position to control criticality of the nuclear fuel contained in the fuel cartridges of the plurality of subcritical power modules.
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公开(公告)号:US09401228B2
公开(公告)日:2016-07-26
申请号:US12930258
申请日:2010-12-30
Applicant: Charles E. Ahlfeld , Thomas M. Burke , Tyler S. Ellis , John Rogers Gilleland , Jonatan Hejzlar , Pavel Hejzlar , Roderick A. Hyde , David G. McAlees , Jon D. McWhirter , Ashok Odedra , Robert C. Petroski , Nicholas W. Touran , Joshua C. Walter , Kevan D. Weaver , Thomas Allan Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , George B. Zimmerman
Inventor: Charles E. Ahlfeld , Thomas M. Burke , Tyler S. Ellis , John Rogers Gilleland , Jonatan Hejzlar , Pavel Hejzlar , Roderick A. Hyde , David G. McAlees , Jon D. McWhirter , Ashok Odedra , Robert C. Petroski , Nicholas W. Touran , Joshua C. Walter , Kevan D. Weaver , Thomas Allan Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , George B. Zimmerman
CPC classification number: G21C1/024 , G21C1/026 , G21C1/03 , G21C3/322 , G21C7/00 , G21C15/06 , G21C19/205 , Y02E30/34 , Y02E30/35 , Y02E30/38
Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.
Abstract translation: 公开的实施例包括核裂变反应堆核心,核裂变反应堆,操作核裂变反应堆的方法以及在核裂变反应堆中管理过量反应性的方法。
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公开(公告)号:US3406090A
公开(公告)日:1968-10-15
申请号:US51136965
申请日:1965-12-03
Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY UK
Inventor: DOUGLAS DUNN PETER , CLUCAS WHITBY HERBERT , GRAHAM RICE
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公开(公告)号:US3323576A
公开(公告)日:1967-06-06
申请号:US7254560
申请日:1960-11-25
Applicant: DOW CHEMICAL CO
Inventor: CANNON GUY H
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公开(公告)号:US3205144A
公开(公告)日:1965-09-07
申请号:US13394561
申请日:1961-08-25
Applicant: BABCOCK & WILCOX CO
Inventor: JABSEN FELIX S
IPC: G21C3/12 , G21C3/32 , G21C3/34 , G21C3/352 , G21C7/27 , G21C11/08 , G21C15/06 , G21C19/04 , G21D5/08
CPC classification number: G21C3/12 , G21C3/32 , G21C3/34 , G21C3/352 , G21C7/27 , G21C11/08 , G21C11/083 , G21C15/06 , G21C19/04 , G21D5/08 , Y02E30/39
Abstract: 1,018,481. Reactors; fuel elements. BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. Aug. 22, 1962 [Aug. 23, 1961], No. 32222/62. Heading G6C. A nuclear reactor has fuel elements formed of clusters of cylindrical fuel cans, some of the elements being provided with retaining means to prevent their displacement by coolant flow, the retained fuel elements themselves retaining adjacent fuel elements not possessing said retaining means. The retaining fuel elements, Fig. 5, include grapples 104 which engage lugs on the under face of the lower grid plate 60 (Fig. 1), and can be released by means of a rod 108 actuated from above the fuel element to withdraw the locking wedge 112. Adjacent fuel elements are retained by springs 126 mounted on the top casting 88 of the fuel element, and also by lugs mounted at the lower ends of said adjacent fuel elements which engage beneath the shoulder formed by the cylindrical body portion 94 of the retaining fuel element. Dowels are provided for lateral constraint. The reactor is adapted to operate with spectral shift control as described in Specification 894,902, and uses a combined moderator and coolant in the form of a mixture of light and heavy water. The pressure vessel 54, Fig. 1, is supported on a base 200 during construction, but on completion its weight is supported by a cylindrical biological shield 196 which is waterfilled. The moderator-coolant enters through a pipe 17 and passes downward, cooling the thermal shields 140, 150, 152, into a lower plenum chamber 62, from which it flows up through the core to an upper plenum chamber 66 and out of the reactor through a pipe 18. The upper plenum chamber includes a filler casting 178 to reduce the required volume of moderatorcoolant. Top mounted control rods 12 are used for emergency shut-down, and a portion of the coolant is allowed to leak through the controlrod guide tubes 158 into the uppermost part of the pressure vessel. The lattice (Fig. 2, not shown), is arranged so that each retaining fuel element is surrounded by four retained fuel elements having within them cruciform control rod passages. Fuel elements (Fig. 5).-The individual fuel cans are retained in each element by top and bottom grip plates 78, 80 and an intermediate grid 82. The fuel cans 84 at the corners and 86 at the side mid-points are made of thicker section tubing and constitute structural members for connecting the top and bottom fuel element grid plates. Similar tubes are used in the same manner in the control rod-passage-containing fuel elements. The structural cans are threaded for retention in the upper grid plate.
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公开(公告)号:US3111474A
公开(公告)日:1963-11-19
申请号:US68088157
申请日:1957-08-28
Applicant: BABCOCK & WILCOX LTD
Inventor: RONALD HAYNES
CPC classification number: G21C3/38 , G21C15/06 , G21C17/102 , Y02E30/40
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公开(公告)号:US2928779A
公开(公告)日:1960-03-15
申请号:US45028254
申请日:1954-08-16
Applicant: WEILLS JORDAN T , WEST JOHN M
Inventor: WEILLS JORDAN T , WEST JOHN M
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