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US 8,064,566 B2Granted
Electricity and steam generation from a helium-cooled nuclear reactor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorAndrew Maxwell Peter
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method comprising heating helium in a core of a nuclear reactor; extracting heat from the helium; superheating water to steam using the heat extracted from the helium, expanding the helium in a turbine; wherein the turbine is in operative communication with an electrical generator; and generating electricity in the electrical generator.
Claims6
A method comprising:
- heating helium in a nuclear reactor;
- expanding the heated helium in a turbine located downstream of the nuclear reactor, wherein the turbine is in operative communication with an electrical generator;
- extracting heat from the helium downstream of the turbine;
- generating steam from water and superheating the steam with the heat extracted from the helium such that pressure of the steam is less than the pressure of the helium during said generation and superheating;
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- generating electricity in the electrical generator.
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