Passive cooling apparatus of spent fuel pool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9640286-B2
Application number	US-201213593115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2012
Priority date	Sep 8, 2011
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

An apparatus for cooling a spent fuel pool having a heat exchanger includes a cooling water pool positioned above the spent fuel pool; a floating device configured to be elevated according to a water level of a cooling water in the spent fuel pool; and an emergency cooling water supply pipe configured to form a path through which the cooling water of the cooling water pool is moved to the spent fuel pool and configured to include a floating valve that opens or closes a flow passage of the cooling water in connection with the elevation of the floating device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for cooling a spent fuel pool, the apparatus comprising:
the spent fuel pool containing cooling water and cooling a spent fuel stored therein;
a cooling water pool positioned above the spent fuel pool and also containing cooling water therein;
a heat exchanger disposed in the cooling water pool and lowering temperature of the cooling water from the spent fuel pool;
a cooling water recovery pipe connecting the spent fuel pool and a first end of the heat exchanger and allowing the cooling water from the spent fuel pool to flow into the heat exchanger;
a cooling water circulation pump disposed in the cooling water recovery pipe;
a cooling water supply pipe connecting a second end of the heat exchanger and the spent fuel pool and allowing the cooling water from the heat exchanger to flow to the spent fuel pool;
an emergency cooling water supply pipe connecting a bottom side of the cooling water pool and the spent fuel pool and supplying the cooling water in the cooling water pool to the spent fuel pool by gravity, the emergency cooling water supply pipe being separated from the cooling water supply pipe;
a floating valve disposed in the emergency cooling water supply pipe;
a floating device disposed in the spent fuel pool and opening and closing the floating valve according to a level of the cooling water in the spent fuel pool; and
a transportable cooling water circulation pipe having a first end connected to the cooling water supply pipe upstream of the cooling water circulation pump and a second end connected to the spent fuel pool, the transportable cooling water circulation pipe including a transportable pump, a first valve and a transportable heat exchanger connected in series along the transportable cooling water circulation pipe between the supply pipe and the spent fuel pool.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an emergency cooling water circulation pipe connecting the cooling water pool and the spent fuel pool separately from the cooling water supply pipe and the emergency cooling water supply pipe and circulating the cooling water of the spent fuel pool and the cooling water pool.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling water pool comprises an air cooling pipe cooling the cooling water in the cooling water pool by air.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling water pool comprises a cooling water supplementing pipe supplying the cooling water from an outside of the cooling water pool into the cooling water pool.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second valve connecting the cooling water supply pipe downstream of the cooling water circulation pump and the transportable pump.

Assignees

• Lee Sang Jong
• Lee Geol Woo
• Kim Young Baek
• Choi Jae Don
• Lee Jae Il
• Cho Sung Ju
• An Jung Seon
• Lee Dong Kyu
• Kim Hye Jin
• Choi Dong Uk
• Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sang Jong
• Lee Geol Woo
• Kim Young Baek
• Choi Jae Don
• Lee Jae Il
• Cho Sung Ju
• An Jung Seon
• Lee Dong Kyu
• Kim Hye Jin
• Choi Dong Uk

Classifications

• G21C19/07 Primary

  Storage racks; Storage pools · CPC title

• G21D3/04

  Safety arrangements (emergency protection of reactor G21C9/00) · CPC title

• G21D1/04

  Pumping arrangements (within the reactor pressure vessel G21C15/24; electrodynamic pumps H02K44/02) · CPC title

• G21C15/24

  Promoting flow of the coolant (electrodynamic pumps H02K44/02) · CPC title

• G21C15/18 Primary

  Emergency cooling arrangements; Removing shut-down heat · CPC title