Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of launching natural circulation of liquid metal coolant of a fast neutron nuclear chain reactor
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Application No.: US16633047Application Date: 2018-07-18
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Publication No.: US10937558B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Dmitrij Aleksandrovich Afremov , Denis Viktorovich Safronov , Evgeniya Sergeevna Hizhnyak , Kirill Albertovich Nikel , Natalia Viktorovna Romanova
- Applicant: STATE ATOMIC ENERGY CORPORATION ‘ROSATOM’ ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
- Applicant Address: RU Moscow
- Assignee: STATE ATOMIC ENERGY CORPORATION ‘ROSATOM’ ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
- Current Assignee: STATE ATOMIC ENERGY CORPORATION ‘ROSATOM’ ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
- Current Assignee Address: RU Moscow
- Agency: DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Priority: RU2017126521 20170724
- International Application: PCT/RU2018/000478 WO 20180718
- International Announcement: WO2019/022640 WO 20190131
- Main IPC: G21C15/247
- IPC: G21C15/247 ; G21C15/00 ; G21C1/02

Abstract:
The method of launching natural circulation of the liquid metal coolant in the heat sink circuit of the fast neutron nuclear reactor without connection to the main heat source (first circuit heat sink) and without using pumping equipment, but only as a result of electric heating of the downing and lifting sections of the heat sink circuit to the specified temperatures and, as a consequence, the occurring difference in the densities of the coolant on the lifting and downing sections of the heat sink circuit.
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