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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1977
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stirling A Colgate, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 38 ; 176 / ; 176 68 ; 176 69 ; 176 79 ; 176 82 ; 176 87 ;
Abstract
The danger of a steam explosion from a nuclear reactor core melt-down can be greatly reduced by adding a gasifying agent to the fuel that releases a large amount of gas at a predetermined pre-melt-down temperature that ruptures the bottom end of the fuel rod and blows the finely divided fuel into a residual coolant bath at the bottom of the reactor. This residual bath should be equipped with a secondary cooling loop.