WO1996008016A1 - Mit zungenfedern versehener abstandhalter und mit derartigem abstandhalter versehenes kernbrennstabbündel - Google Patents
Mit zungenfedern versehener abstandhalter und mit derartigem abstandhalter versehenes kernbrennstabbündel Download PDFInfo
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- WO1996008016A1 WO1996008016A1 PCT/DE1995/001145 DE9501145W WO9608016A1 WO 1996008016 A1 WO1996008016 A1 WO 1996008016A1 DE 9501145 W DE9501145 W DE 9501145W WO 9608016 A1 WO9608016 A1 WO 9608016A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
- G21C3/00—Reactor fuel elements and their assemblies; Selection of substances for use as reactor fuel elements
- G21C3/30—Assemblies of a number of fuel elements in the form of a rigid unit
- G21C3/32—Bundles of parallel pin-, rod-, or tube-shaped fuel elements
- G21C3/34—Spacer grids
- G21C3/356—Spacer grids being provided with fuel element supporting members
- G21C3/3563—Supporting members formed only by deformations in the strips
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- 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
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- the invention relates to a spacer for a nuclear reactor fuel element in accordance with the preamble of patent claim 1.
- Such a spacer is known from EP-B-0 080 853.
- the contour of the tongue spring of this known spacer tapers towards the end of the tongue spring, which protrudes into the grid mesh and with which the rod located in the grid mesh is held in a non-positive manner on the system knob.
- the area with which this tongue spring rests on the rod in the mesh is relatively small, so that there is a risk that the tongue spring in the reactor core of a nuclear reactor through which a coolant flows will quickly tire and a lateral impact of the rod in the mesh against the tongue spring, the so-called "fretting" occurs and leads to damage to the rod.
- the invention has for its object to avoid this "fretting".
- Claim 2 is directed to an advantageous further development, by means of which the mechanical load on the tongue spring on its tongue edge attached to the sheet metal web is kept optimally low and the tongue spring therefore only ages particularly slowly.
- Claim 9 relates to an advantageously implemented nuclear reactor fuel element.
- FIG. 1 shows a side view and schematically of a nuclear reactor fuel element for a boiling water reactor, although the invention is also suitable for a pressurized water reactor.
- FIG. 2 shows a highly schematic plan view of part of a grid-shaped spacer of the nuclear reactor fuel element according to FIG. 1.
- 3 shows a perspective view of the wall of a grid mesh of the grid-shaped spacer according to FIG. 2.
- FIG. 5 shows a side view of a modification to the wall according to FIG. 3.
- a nuclear reactor fuel element for a boiling water nuclear reactor has a fuel element head 2 and a fuel element foot 3. Furthermore, two fuel rods 4 filled with nuclear fuel can be seen, each of which is screwed to the fuel element head 2 with one end and to the fuel element foot 3 with the other end. Each of the two fuel rods 4 is guided through a mesh of grid-shaped spacers 5, which are arranged at a distance from one another between the fuel element head 2 and the fuel element 3 and are held or welded to the fuel rods 4 on the outside in a form-fitting manner.
- FIG. 1 Further fuel rods filled with nuclear fuel, of which only a single fuel rod 6 is shown in FIG. 1, are arranged parallel to one another and parallel to the fuel rods 4 between the fuel element head 2 and the fuel element foot 3. Each fuel rod 6 is guided through a grid mesh of the grid-shaped spacer 5 and held non-positively in these grid meshes. Each fuel rod 6 stands loosely on the fuel element base 3 and loosely engages through the fuel element head 2.
- a grid-shaped spacer 5 has grid meshes 7 each with a square cross section.
- the lattice-shaped spacer 5 has sheet-metal webs 8 and 9 which penetrate on edge, of which the sheet-metal webs 8 of a first group are parallel to one another and to one another parallel sheet metal webs 9 of a second group are arranged at right angles.
- Two tongue springs 11 protrude into each grid mesh 7 of the spacer 5, the two system knobs 12 and 18 in each mesh mesh 7 for frictionally holding a rod (not shown in FIG. 2), e.g. a fuel rod 4 or 6 are assigned.
- FIG 3 shows a wall of a lattice mesh 7 at a location of a sheet metal web 9, on which on one side of this sheet metal web 9 there is a tongue spring 11 in a lattice mesh 7 and a system knob 12 on the other side of the sheet metal web y in another lattice mesh 7 in FIG 2 is located.
- an abutment knob 12 is bent into another, adjacent grid mesh 7 around a bending edge in the sheet metal web 9, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the mesh mesh 7.
- This abutment knob 12 is a sheet metal strip cut out of sheet metal web 9, which has a transverse, i.e. has in the longitudinal direction of the mesh mesh 7 extending edge 14 and also in the longitudinal direction of the mesh mesh 7 extending end edge 20 with which the sheet metal strip from the
- Sheet metal bridge 9 protrudes. At the folded edge 14, the sheet metal strip is inclined toward the sheet web 9, from which the system knob
- the tongue spring 11 has one
- Kink edge 15 In this kink edge 15, which extends transversely to the tongue spring 11, ie parallel to the longitudinal direction of the Lattice mesh 7, the tongue spring 11 is inclined toward the sheet metal web 9, to which it is attached and from which it projects.
- the tongue spring 11 has an opening 17 with the contour of an isosceles trapezoid, the bases of which are parallel to one another and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the mesh mesh 7.
- the contour of the opening 17 tapers in the direction of the bending edge 13, on which the tongue spring 11 is attached to the sheet metal web 9.
- the smaller base of the isosceles trapezoid lies in this bending edge 13.
- the kinked edge 15 of the tongue spring 11 is located between the opening 17 and the (long) tongue edge 16 of the tongue spring 11 protruding into one of the meshes 7.
- two system knobs 18 are formed on a wall between two other grid meshes 7.
- each of these two system studs 18 consists of a sheet metal strip, which is cut out of the sheet metal web 8 on a wall of a grid mesh 7 and in each case on a bending edge 19 in the sheet metal web 8 parallel to the longitudinal direction of the grid mesh 7 one of two adjacent meshes 7 is bent into it.
- Each of the two abutments 18 has a folding edge 21 in the sheet metal strip between the bending edge 19 and its end edge 20 protruding from the sheet metal web 8, which is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the grid meshes 7 and thus also parallel to the bending edges 19 and in that the sheet metal strip of the system studs 18 is bent with the end edge 20 towards the sheet metal web 8 to which it is attached.
- the tongue spring 11 forms a contact surface between the kink edge 15 and the end edge 16, for example for a fuel rod 6 filled with nuclear fuel, which is located within the grid mesh 7 into which the tongue spring is inserted 11 protrudes.
- the system knobs 18 according to FIG. 4 form a contact surface between the folded edge 21 and the end edge 20 also for a fuel rod which is arranged in the adjacent grid mesh 7 and is filled with nuclear fuel and which extends with its longitudinal axis in the longitudinal direction of the grid meshes 7.
- the spring constant of a tongue spring 11 and a system boss 12 and 18 is given by the quotient of a force acting on the end edge 16 of the tongue spring 11 and 20 of the system bosses 12 and 18 and the spring travel caused by this force.
- the force and spring travel are each directed at a right angle to the wall of the grid mesh on which the tongue spring or the system knob is attached.
- the spring constant of the tongue spring 11 can thus be smaller than the spring constant of the system knob 12 or 18 assigned to this tongue spring 11 in a grid mesh 7, so that a fuel rod arranged in this grid dimension 7 is one Tongue spring 11 is found, which is elastically more flexible than the system knob 12 or 18, which is assigned to this tongue spring 11.
- a resilient transverse strip 23 can be formed between the end edge 16 of the tongue spring 11 projecting from the sheet metal web 9 and the buckling edge 15 through two spaced transverse slots 30 from the tongue spring 11.
- a resilient transverse strip 24 - as shown in FIG. 4 - can be formed between the end edge 20 and the folded edge 21 of the system studs 18.
- the system knob 12 according to FIG have such resilient transverse strips.
- These resilient transverse strips form a linear, elastic, resilient contact point on a rod arranged in the mesh, for example a fuel rod 6, to which they are arched, so that "fretting" is avoided with even greater certainty.
- the side surfaces of both the tongue springs and the system knobs of the grid-shaped spacer extend in the longitudinal direction of the grid mesh.
- a liquid coolant flows through a nuclear reactor fuel element with such a spacer grid in the reactor core of a nuclear reactor. Accordingly, this flow is opposed by the tongue springs 11 and the system knobs 12 and 18 only little flow resistance.
- FIG. 5 in which the same parts are provided with the same reference numerals as in FIG. 3, shows a tongue spring 11, which extends toward the sheet metal web 8 of a lattice-shaped spacer, to which this tongue spring 11 is attached.
- This tongue spring 11 has an isosceles trapezoid as the outer contour and a (long) tongue edge 13 in the longitudinal direction of the mesh, around which the tongue spring 11 is bent out of the sheet metal web 8 into a mesh mesh.
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JP8509103A JPH10505158A (ja) | 1994-09-09 | 1995-08-28 | 原子炉燃料集合体のスペーサと原子炉燃料集合体 |
EP95932611A EP0780018B1 (de) | 1994-09-09 | 1995-08-28 | Mit zungenfedern versehener abstandhalter und mit derartigem abstandhalter versehenes kernbrennstabbündel |
DE59502613T DE59502613D1 (de) | 1994-09-09 | 1995-08-28 | Mit zungenfedern versehener abstandhalter und mit derartigem abstandhalter versehenes kernbrennstabbündel |
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US3769159A (en) * | 1968-06-24 | 1973-10-30 | Combustion Eng | Fuel element grid support for nuclear reactor |
EP0025395A1 (de) * | 1979-09-07 | 1981-03-18 | COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE Etablissement de Caractère Scientifique Technique et Industriel | Abstandshaltegitter für Kernbrennelemente |
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DE59502613D1 (de) | 1998-07-23 |
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