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Use of NaK overcomes this. The Dounreay Fast Reactor is an example. The first nuclear reactor in space, [10] [11] the United States' experimental SNAP-10A satellite, used NaK as coolant. The NaK was circulated through the core and thermoelectric converters by a liquid metal direct current conduction-type pump. [12]
Primary NaK Coolant Loop Primärkühlmittelkreislauf, mit NaK Kühlmittel 5 Secondary NaK Coolant Loop Sekundärkühlmittelkreislauf, mit NaK Kühlmittel 6 Secondary NaK Circulator Sekundärkühlmittelpumpe 7 Secondary Heat exhanger: Sekundärwärmeübertrager: 8 Primary Heat Exchanger Primärwärmeübertrager: 9 Primary NaK Circulator
NaK was used as the coolant in the first breeder reactor prototype, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-1, in 1951. Sodium and NaK do, however, ignite spontaneously on contact with air and react violently with water, producing hydrogen gas. This was the case at the Monju Nuclear Power Plant in a 1995 accident and fire. Sodium is also the coolant ...
A nuclear reactor coolant is a coolant in a nuclear reactor used to remove heat from the nuclear reactor core and transfer it to electrical generators and the environment. Frequently, a chain of two coolant loops are used because the primary coolant loop takes on short-term radioactivity from the reactor.
The aim of the template is to show the characteristics of an reactor design (e.g. RBMK) or individual experimental or prototype reactors (e.g. Chicago Pile-1 or Superphénix), but not for individual power plants (e.g. not Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant)
Schematic diagram showing the difference between the Pool and Loop designs of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor. The two main design approaches to sodium-cooled reactors are pool type and loop type. In the pool type, the primary coolant is contained in the main reactor vessel, which therefore includes the reactor core and a heat exchanger.
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