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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1997
Tadashi Narabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Miyuki Akiba, Ota-ku, JP;
Shinichi Morooka, Suginami-ku, JP;
Mikihide Nakamaru, Fujisawa, JP;
Makoto Yasuoka, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A separator/injector having an outlet pressure higher than an inlet pressure thereof is introduced instead of the dynamic equipment for a reactor recirculation system that is necessary in the prior art, to achieve both liquid-vapor separation and forced circulation. A jet pump and a recirculation flow-rate control valve are provided in a lower portion of a downcomer portion of a reactor pressure vessel. A shroud head has a double-walled structure, a two-phase liquid-vapor flow that is flowing from a lower portion of the lower shroud head is accelerated by an accelerator nozzle of the separator/injector, and a liquid component of the thus-separated flow is increased in pressure and guided into a jet pump through a space formed between the double shroud heads. Alternatively, a circular cylindrical separator/injector in which the steam nozzle and diffuser are disposed in a helical form in close proximity to the inner wall of a circular tube above the stand pipe could be provided instead of this separator/injector.