GB1087865A – Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
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GB1087865A – Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
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Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
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Publication number
GB1087865A
GB1087865A
GB25188/63A
GB2518863A
GB1087865A
GB 1087865 A
GB1087865 A
GB 1087865A
GB 25188/63 A
GB25188/63 A
GB 25188/63A
GB 2518863 A
GB2518863 A
GB 2518863A
GB 1087865 A
GB1087865 A
GB 1087865A
Authority
GB
United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
carrier
core
shaft
fuel
arm
Prior art date
1963-06-25
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired
Application number
GB25188/63A
Inventor
Alexander Gilchrist Frame
Horace Frank Parker
John Stacey
Peter Liptrot Riley
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Original Assignee
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
1963-06-25
Filing date
1963-06-25
Publication date
1967-10-18
1963-06-25
Application filed by UK Atomic Energy Authority
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UK Atomic Energy Authority
1963-06-25
Priority to GB25188/63A
priority
Critical
patent/GB1087865A/en
1964-06-17
Priority to US375867A
priority
patent/US3271263A/en
1967-10-18
Publication of GB1087865A
publication
Critical
patent/GB1087865A/en
Status
Expired
legal-status
Critical
Current
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Classifications
G—PHYSICS
G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
G21C1/00—Reactor types
G21C1/02—Fast fission reactors, i.e. reactors not using a moderator ; Metal cooled reactors; Fast breeders
G—PHYSICS
G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
G21C19/00—Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
G21C19/16—Articulated or telescopic chutes or tubes for connection to channels in the reactor core
G—PHYSICS
G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
G21C19/00—Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
G21C19/20—Arrangements for introducing objects into the pressure vessel; Arrangements for handling objects within the pressure vessel; Arrangements for removing objects from the pressure vessel
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
Abstract
1,087,865. Fuelling reactors. UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY. June 15, 1964 [June 25, 1963], No. 25188/63. Heading G6C. A fuelling arrangement for a reactor as disclosed in Specification 1,087,866 in which elongate fuel units 60 are suspended from sockets 38 at the lower ends of struts 37 within tubes 31 of the core 19, comprises an arm 39 connected to a rotatable telescopically constructed shaft 43 so as to be radially movable beneath the core and to be displaceable towards and away from the core. A carrier 41a traversable along the arm has a pintle 41 engageable with a socket at the lower end of a fuel unit 60 and thus by rotating the shaft 43 and traversing the carrier 41a the pintle 41 may be aligned with a selected fuel unit. The shaft is rotated by a tiller 47 radially aligned with the arm 39 and connected to the shaft. An indexing key 48 traversable along the tiller 47 is mechanically connected to the carrier 41a so that the latter keeps in alignment with the key. In order to remove a fuel unit 60 from. a tube 31 the key 48 is aligned with the selected unit and the carrier 41a: is raised by teleseopic movement of the shaft 43 to support the fuel unit, the latter being released from its strut 37 by means associated with the key as described in Specification 1, 087,866. Lowering of the carrier 41a then permits the fuel unit to be withdrawn from the core 19. The shaft 43,arm 39 and tiller 47 &c. are duplicated to cover different overlapping areas of the core (Fig. 1, not shown). In order to transfer fuel units 60 to or from the core tank 14, a charge tube 53 extends from a fuel handling section 17 of the tank to the exterior of the reactor above the shield 12, this tube including a shut-off valve 55 and being connectible to a fuelling machine (not shown) through an adaptor 58, the carrier 41a being aligned with the tube 53 to receive a fuel unit lowered from the machine.
GB25188/63A
1963-06-25
1963-06-25
Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
Expired
GB1087865A
(en)
Priority Applications (2)
Application Number
Priority Date
Filing Date
Title
GB25188/63A
GB1087865A
(en)
1963-06-25
1963-06-25
Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
US375867A
US3271263A
(en)
1963-06-25
1964-06-17
Nuclear reactor with improved fuel handling apparatus
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number
Priority Date
Filing Date
Title
GB25188/63A
GB1087865A
(en)
1963-06-25
1963-06-25
Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
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GB1087865A
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GB1087865A
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1967-10-18
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GB25188/63A
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GB1087865A
(en)
1963-06-25
1963-06-25
Fuel handling apparatus for nuclear reactors
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US
(1)
US3271263A
(en)
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GB1087865A
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Priority date
Publication date
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Title
GB1122272A
(en)
*
1964-11-24
1968-08-07
Atomic Energy Authority Uk
Improvements in or relating to nuclear reactors
FR1453460A
(en)
*
1965-08-10
1966-06-03
Euratom
Warehouse for the storage of rod-shaped fuel elements for nuclear reactors
1963
1963-06-25
GB
GB25188/63A
patent/GB1087865A/en
not_active
Expired
1964
1964-06-17
US
US375867A
patent/US3271263A/en
not_active
Expired – Lifetime
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Publication date
US3271263A
(en)
1966-09-06
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