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AssigneeCommissariat a l'Energie Atomique
InventorsLouis Bregeon, Gerard Dupuy, Bernard Lerouge, Jean-Pierre Schwartz
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This invention relates to a thermogenic swimming-pool type nuclear reactor adapted to produce hot water for use in a heating installation. The reactor comprises a generally cylindrical enclosure open at the top and filled with a cooling liquid. The enclosure is divided by a horizontal partition and the bottom zone below the partition contains the reactor core and at least one heat exchanger and at least one venturi. The cooling liquid is circulated between the outlet and inlet of the core through the heat exchanger and the venturi. At least one conduit extends through the partition so that its top end discharges into the upper zone and its bottom end discharges into an aperture formed in the wall of the venturi at its neck.
A thermogenic swimming-pool type nuclear reactor, characterized in that it comprises a vertical-axis enclosure of a general cylindrical shape filled with a cooling liquid and open at the top, the said enclosure being divided into a top and a bottom zone respectively by a horizontal wall, the bottom zone containing a reactor core having a core inlet and a core outlet, at least one heat exchanger, at least one venturi each venturi being provided with a wall and an outlet and an inlet and a neck and at least one aperture formed in the wall of the venturi at the neck of the venturi, and pump means for circulating some of the cooling liquid between the core outlet and the core inlet through the exchanger and the venturi, the reactor further comprising at least one conduit extending through said horizontal wall and opening at a top end into the top zone and, at a bottom end, into the aperture formed in the wall of the venturi.
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