Conceptual design of a coupled breeding superheating reactor, CBSR /
The conceptual design of the Coupled Breeding Superheating Reactor, CBSR, for achieving a positive breeding gain and for producing 65 Mw of electric power is presented. The design combines a steam-cooled fast region and a non-boiling pressurized light-water-cooled thermal region. The advantage offer...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Argonne, Ill. :
Argonne National Laboratory, Reactor Engineering Division,
1961.
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| Series: | ANL (Series) ;
6286. |
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| Summary: | The conceptual design of the Coupled Breeding Superheating Reactor, CBSR, for achieving a positive breeding gain and for producing 65 Mw of electric power is presented. The design combines a steam-cooled fast region and a non-boiling pressurized light-water-cooled thermal region. The advantage offered by this arrangement as compared with that using a solid moderator in the thermal zone is that, if a power excursion occurs, the water will increase the void content and tend to limit the excursion. The total reactor power is 216 Mwt, of which 163 Mwt is used to superheat steam as it passes through the fast regions of the reactor and 53 Mwt is transferred to the pressurized water. A summary of the reactor design characteristics is tabulated. |
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| Item Description: | "March 1961." At head of title: Argonne National Laboratory. "Operated by the University of Chicago under Contract W-31-109-eng-38." Other authors include: W. V. Dewey, R. Rohde, and B. J. Toppel. |
| Physical Description: | 68 pages : illustrations, tables ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |