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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Nuscale Power, Llc, Corvallis, OR (US);
Inventor:
Ted Hough, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
NuScale Power, LLC, Corvallis, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02J 9/04 (2006.01); G21D 3/04 (2006.01); G21D 1/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); G21D 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21D 3/04 (2013.01); G21D 1/00 (2013.01); H02J 3/006 (2013.01); Y02E 30/40 (2013.01); Y04S 10/525 (2013.01); Y10T 307/344 (2015.04);
Abstract
An electrical power system for a nuclear power facility includes an active alternating current (AC) power bus configured to be electrically coupled to a plurality of engineered safety feature (ESF) loads of a plurality of nuclear power systems, each of the ESF loads configured to fail to a safe position upon loss of primary AC power; a critical battery system electrically coupled to the active AC bus, the critical battery system comprising a plurality of valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries; and a primary AC power source electrically coupled to the active AC bus.