Start-up conditions in a uranium-graphite power reactor providing superheated steam: V. V. Dolgov, V. Ya. Kozlov, L. A. Kochetkov, O. A. Sudnitsyn and G. N. Ushakov

Abstract

(1960) July. (ln Russian) Start-up conditions for a nuclear power plant with a uranium-- graphite reactor which provides superheated steam directly in the reactor were investigated using the steam-- water circuit of the First Atomic Power Plant. The circuit and various methods of stant-up are described, and the advantages and shontcomings of various start-up methods are discussed. The feasibility of a stant-up without an outside steam source is indicated. (tr-auth)