Method of repairing incore structure and water sealing chamber
Creators
- 1. Hitachi Nuclear Engineering Co. Ltd., Ibaraki (Japan)
Description
An incore-chamber main body comprises a guide tube, an insertion guide, an extensible arm, a device fixing mechanism, a gas supply pipe, a guide driving mechanism and an in-core chamber control device. The in-core chamber main body is installed and secured to an upper flange surface of a shroud. Reactor water is raised to a level below a flange of a reactor pressure vessel while supplying a dry gas from a gas supply pipe to make the inside of the shroud as a gas atmosphere. Subsequently, each of the devices is attached to the top end of the extensible arm, and the guide driving mechanism is operated by the in-core chamber control device to an aimed position for preventive maintenance or repair to conduct positioning and fixing by utilizing the guide tube and the insertion guide. This enables to conduct preventive maintenance or repair in a state where reactor water is present to the outside of the in-core reactor chamber while maintaining the in-core equipment in the gas atmosphere, thereby enabling to reduce operator's exposure dose. (I.N.)
Availability note (English)
Available from JAPIO. Also available from EPO.Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 6 p.
- IPC:
- Int. Cl. G21C19/02.
- IPC
- Int. Cl. G21C19/02.
- Patent number
- JP patent document 5-312992/A/
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 25055744
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ARMS; CONTAINERS; CONTAMINATION; GASES; PRESSURE VESSELS; RADIATION PROTECTION; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MAINTENANCE; REMOTE CONTROL; SHROUDS; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- BODY; BODY AREAS; CONTROL; COOLING SYSTEMS; FLUIDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; LIMBS; MAINTENANCE; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- JP patent application 4-120326.