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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
May. 28, 2021
Ge-hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas Llc, Wilmington, NC (US);
Eric Paul Loewen, Wilmington, NC (US);
Seth Ryan Paul Strege, Wilmington, NC (US);
Nicholas Francis O'Neill, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Colin Christopher O'Connor, Atlanta, GA (US);
Chelsea Ann Curtin, Atlanta, GA (US);
Edwin Wu, Houston, TX (US);
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC, Wilmington, NC (US);
Abstract
The method includes configuring a nuclear reactor to at least partially mitigate liquid metal coolant backflow in the nuclear reactor in response to an at least partial failure of a primary electromagnetic pump (EMP) within a reactor pressure vessel of the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor being liquid metal-cooled, the primary EMP configured to circulate liquid metal coolant through at least a reactor core of the nuclear reactor, the configuring including, installing a backflow EMP within the reactor pressure vessel, such that when selectively activated, the backflow EMP at least partially mitigates liquid metal coolant backflow through the primary EMP.