Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.

Shouichirou Kinoshita

Minoru Akita

Kenji Tominaga

Kumiaki Moriya

Tooru Takahashi

Isao Sumida

Tetsuo Horiuchi

Tsuyoshi Niino

Kanehiro Ochiai

Masato Koshiishi

Minoru Miki

Yuichi Uchiyama

Takashi Nakayama

Masaaki Tsubaki

Masaki Matsumoto

Masayoshi Matsuura

Akihiko Shiozawa

Toyoharu Yasuno

Kenji Moriya

Kazuo Kage

Ryuji Kubota

Hideo Morishima

Koji Ando

A main steam system around a nuclear reactor which comprises two main steam nozzles in a reactor pressure vessel, each of the main nozzles being disposed at a symmetrical position with respect to a plane parallel to steam outlet faces of steam dryers provided inside the reactor pressure vessel and passing through a center of the reactor pressure vessel; and main steam pipes each connected to the main steam nozzles.

Main steam system around nuclear reactor

Disclosed is liquid filling apparatus for a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel. The apparatus comprises a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a closed liquid storage tank disposed at a level higher than that at which liquid is supplied to the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a liquid-filling flow passage for supplying liquid from the closed liquid storage tank into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a pressure-feed flow passage for supplying a pressure from the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel to the closed liquid storage tank, valves equipped on the liquid-filling flow passage and the pressure-feed flow passage respectively, and a liquid-filling liquid source adapted to communicate with the interior of the closed liquid storage tank via a valve, whereby the environmental surroundings of the closed liquid storage tank are lower in temperature than the interior of the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel.

Liquid filling method for a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel

Disclosed is a liquid filling apparatus for high-temperature and high-pressure vessel. The apparatus comprises a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a closed liquid storage tank disposed at a level higher than that at which liquid is filled into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a liquid-filling flow passage for supplying liquid from the closed liquid storage tank into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a pressure-feed flow passage for supplying pressure from the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel to the closed liquid storage tank, valves equipped on the liquid-filling flow passage and the pressure-feed flow passage respectively, and a liquid-filling liquid source adapted to communicate with the interior of the closed liquid storage tank via a valve, whereby the environmental surroundings of the closed liquid storage tank are lower in temperature than the interior of the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel.

A nuclear reactor facility including a primary containment vessel, a reactor pressure vessel installed in the primary containment vessel and accommodating a reactor core in a lower part thereof, and a vertical cylindrical wall disposed in a lower part of the primary containment vessel around and spaced from the reactor pressure vessel so as to delimit an annular space therebetween. The vertical cylindrical wall has an upper end disposed at a position higher than an upper end of the reactor core and a diaphragm extends substantially horizontally between the upper end of the vertical cylindrical wall and an inner wall of the primary containment vessel for cooperating with the vertical cylindrical wall to separate a space in the primary containment vessel around the reactor pressure vessel into a pressure suppression chamber and a drywell which includes annular space. The pressure suppression chamber accommodates therein a pool of liquid coolant wherein a level of the liquid coolant of the pool is higher than the upper end of the reactor core. The vertical cylindrical wall has a plurality of vent passages having an upper part at the upper end of the vertical cylindrical wall and exposed to the drywell and a lower part exposed to the pool of the liquid coolant in the pressure suppression chamber. A submergence line and a channel member are also provided.

Nuclear power facilities

A container-outer-periphery pool in which water is stored is provided between a primary containment vessel and a reactor building, and outside of a pressure suppression pool. Consequently, the natural heat transfer capabilities of reactor facilities is enhanced, and the inherent safety of the reactor facilities is improved.

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Hitachi, Japan

Shouichirou Kinoshita