Device and method for fixing a reactor metering pipe

• US 8,608,121 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2008
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Maehara, Takeshi, Watanabe, Yuusuke, Mori, Hajime, Saito, Noboru, Watanabe, Masanobu, Iwasa, Hideshi, Kinugasa, Kunihiko, Saiki, Kiyofumi, Okuda, Ken, Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi, Kasai, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): STERLING, AMY JO
• Application Number:
  US12/167,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20090032650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 248/231.31, 248/230.2, 248/70, 248/65, 248/74.1, 248/74.4, 248/229.21, 248/228.2, 248/68.1
• US Class Current: 248/231.31
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/02 partly surrounding the pipes, cables or protective tubing bands or chains F16L3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G21C 13/032 Joints between tubes and vessel walls, e.g. taking into account thermal stresses
• CPC Class Codes: G21C 15/25 using jet pumps
• CPC Class Codes: G21C 17/032 Reactor-coolant flow measuring or monitoring measuring volume or mass flow in general G01F
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 30/30 Nuclear fission reactors

Abstract

A reactor metering pipe fixing device fixes a reactor metering pipe disposed in a reactor to a cylindrical outer surface of a jet pump diffuser and reduces stress that may be induced in a weld zone in the reactor metering pipe. An outer holding member 41 is held on the cylindrical outer surface 18a of a jet pump diffuser 18 by a C-shaped holding member 30. The reactor metering pipe 19 is clamped from radial directions by the outer holding member 41 and inner holding members 42 and 43. Wedges 44 and 45 are wedged into a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 42 and a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 43 to fix the reactor metering pipe 19 firmly to the cylindrical outer surface 18a.

Claims

1. A reactor metering pipe fixing device for fixedly holding a vertical metering pipe in a vertical direction on a cylindrical outer surface of a jet pump diffuser installed in a reactor pressure vessel of a boiling-water reactor, the reactor metering pipe fixing device comprising:

an assembly for holding the metering pipe on the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser, and a C-shaped holding member holding the assembly on the cylindrical outer surface from an outside, the assembly including;

an outer holding member attached to the C-shaped holding member, and brought into contact with the metering pipe from an outer side of the metering pipe with respect to a radial direction;

a plurality of inner holding members inside the outer holding member, movably attached to the outer holding member, and brought into contact with the metering pipe from an inner side of the metering pipe with respect to the radial direction;

a plurality of wedges in a space between one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser for securing the plurality of inner holding members to the cylindrical outer surface, the plurality of wedges being in contact with the plurality of inner holding members and with the cylindrical outer surface;

a first means that is vertically moving means for vertically moving the wedges along an axis of the metering pipe to widen the space between the one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface so as to secure the one of the plurality of inner holding members to the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser; and

a second means that is supporting means for supporting either the plurality of inner holding members or the wedges to be movable in the radial direction relative to the outer holding member,

wherein the plurality of inner holding members, the wedges, the first means, and the second means are at an upper end and a lower end of the outer holding member, respectively, to fix two vertically spaced parts of the metering pipe to the cylindrical outer surface,

wherein each of the plurality of wedges is disposed between one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser, and

wherein a first wedge of the plurality of wedges does not contact a second wedge of the plurality of wedges.

2. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the outer holding member is detachably attached to the C-shaped holding member.

3. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 2, further comprising outer holding member moving means for radially moving the outer holding member relative to the cylindrical outer surface, supported on the C-shaped holding member.

4. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 2, wherein the outer holding member is formed integrally with the C-shaped holding member.

5. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the outer holding member has a positioning part that is engaged with a connecting member for connecting the metering pipe to the cylindrical outer surface to position the outer holding member with respect to the vertical direction.

6. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of inner holding members, the plurality of wedges, the first means, and the second means are directly below the positioning part of the outer holding member.

7. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of wedges is provided in its contact surface to be in contact with the cylindrical outer surface with a recess capable of being engaged with a stump-shaped protrusion formed by cutting a connecting part for connecting the metering pipe to the cylindrical outer surface for repairing and remaining on the cylindrical outer surface to position the at least one of the plurality of wedges with respect to the vertical direction.

8. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the vertically moving means comprise a first screw vertically screwed in one of the plurality of inner holding members or one of the plurality of wedges, and a second screw screwed in another one of the plurality of inner holding members or another one of the plurality of wedges or the outer holding member.

9. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 8, wherein the first screw is on a side of an upper end of the outer holding member and on one side of the metering pipe with respect to a circumferential direction on the cylindrical outer surface, and the second screw is on a side of a lower end of the outer holding member and on another side of the metering pipe with respect to the circumferential direction on the cylindrical outer surface.

10. A reactor metering pipe fixing method of fixing a metering pipe to a cylindrical surface by using the reactor metering pipe fixing device in claim 1, comprising fixing plural vertically spaced parts of the metering pipe to the cylindrical outer surface.

12. The reactor metering pipe fixing device according to claim 1, wherein the C-shaped holding member includes a first end and a second end, wherein the second end is spaced from the first end such that the second end is detached from the first end.

11. A reactor metering pipe fixing device for fixedly holding a vertical metering pipe in a vertical direction on a cylindrical outer surface of a jet pump diffuser installed in a reactor pressure vessel of a boiling-water reactor, said reactor metering pipe fixing device comprising:

an assembly for holding the metering pipe on the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser, and a C-shaped holding member holding the assembly on the cylindrical outer surface from an outside, the assembly including;

an outer holding member attached to the C-shaped holding member, and brought into contact with the metering pipe from an outer side of the metering pipe with respect to a radial direction;

a plurality of inner holding members inside the outer holding member, movably attached to the outer holding member, and brought into contact with the metering pipe from an inner side of the metering pipe with respect to the radial direction;

a plurality of wedges in a space between one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser for securing the plurality of inner holding members to the cylindrical outer surface;

vertically moving means for vertically moving the plurality of wedges along an axis of the metering pipe to widen the space between the one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface so as to secure the one of the plurality of inner holding members to the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser; and

a first supporting means for supporting either of the plurality of inner holding members and the plurality of wedges so as to be movable in the radial direction relative to the outer holding member,

wherein the plurality of inner holding members, the plurality of wedges, the first supporting means, and the vertically moving means are at an upper end and a lower end of the outer holding member, respectively, to fix two vertically spaced parts of the metering pipe to the cylindrical outer surface,

wherein each of the plurality of wedges is in a space between one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser,

wherein each of the plurality of wedges is disposed between one of the plurality of inner holding members and the cylindrical outer surface of the jet pump diffuser, and

wherein a first wedge of the plurality of wedges does not contact a second wedge of the plurality of wedges.