Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Natural circulation boiling water reactor and handling method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 自然循环沸水反应器及其处理方法
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Application No.: US11680072Application Date: 2007-02-28
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Publication No.: US07907695B2Publication Date: 2011-03-15
- Inventor: Atsushi Watanabe , Yoichi Wada , Makoto Nagase , Kazushige Ishida , Hideyuki Hosokawa , Fumihito Hirokawa , Masaaki Tsubaki , Shiro Takahashi
- Applicant: Atsushi Watanabe , Yoichi Wada , Makoto Nagase , Kazushige Ishida , Hideyuki Hosokawa , Fumihito Hirokawa , Masaaki Tsubaki , Shiro Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Ibaraki-ken
- Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Ibaraki-ken
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2006-051501 20060228
- Main IPC: G21C3/56
- IPC: G21C3/56

Abstract:
A natural circulation boiling water reactor provides to a chimney with a plurality of tubes. That is to say, each of the plurality of tubes partitions the coolant flow path above a core. Thus, unlike the conventional natural circulation boiling water reactor providing the flow path partition wall grid in which the plate members are made integral by welding and coolant flow paths are partitioned, the chimney of the natural circulation boiling water reactor can reduce the number of welded portions because the edges of the four corners of each flow path do not need to be welded. The natural circulation boiling water reactor can avoid removal as a single unit, as in the case of the flow path partition wall grid in the conventional natural circulation boiling water reactor, by detaching each tube. The chimney can be easily detached from the reactor pressure vessel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070201607A1 NATURAL CIRCULATION BOILING WATER REACTOR AND HANDLING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2007-08-30
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