EP 1074024 A1 20010207 - NUCLEAR POWERED STEAM EXPANSION ENGINE AND A NUCLEAR POWERED GENERATOR WITH METHOD OF OPERATION
Title (en)
NUCLEAR POWERED STEAM EXPANSION ENGINE AND A NUCLEAR POWERED GENERATOR WITH METHOD OF OPERATION
Title (de)
VON KERNENERGIE BETRIEBENE EXPANSIONSDAMPFMACHINE, KERNENERGIEGENERATOR UND DESSEN BETRIEBSVERFAHREN
Title (fr)
MOTEUR A DETENTE DE VAPEUR MU PAR L'ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE ET GENERATEUR NUCLEAIRE AVEC PROCEDE DE FONCTIONNEMENT
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 9905448 W 19990305
- US 7691798 P 19980305
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO9945545A1] A nuclear power generator having a nuclear fuel assembly which is periodically adjacent first to a first nuclear reactor containing fresh nuclear fuel where the fuel assembly achieves a supercritical state, and then adjacent to a second nuclear reactor containing spent nuclear fuel where delayed neutrons resulting from the supercritical state of the fuel assembly cause a supercritical state in the spent fuel thereby releasing heat. A nuclear powered steam expansion engine capable of converting nuclear energy to mechanical work by periodically bringing into proximity two nuclear fuel assemblies within a piston and cylinder assembly, thus making the fuel assemblies successively supercritical and subcritical in cyclical fashion, with associated cyclical heating, periodically injecting water into the resultant heated cylinder, which water is converted to steam which expands, drives the piston, and produces mechanical work, recycling the expanded steam by adding additional heat during an exhaust stroke, and using the recycled steam to drive a turbine system.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G21C 7/02 (2006.01); G21C 7/30 (2006.01); G21D 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G21C 7/02 (2013.01); G21C 7/30 (2013.01); G21D 5/02 (2013.01); Y02E 20/16 (2013.01); Y02E 30/00 (2013.01); Y02E 30/30 (2013.01)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
CH DE ES FR GB IT LI
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 9945545 A1 19990910; WO 9945545 A8 20000302; WO 9945545 A9 20000427; AU 3545699 A 19990920; EP 1074024 A1 20010207; EP 1074024 A4 20010725
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 9905448 W 19990305; AU 3545699 A 19990305; EP 99917304 A 19990305