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Abstract

A reactor cavity flooding system, which is used to immerse the hemispherical lower head of a nuclear reactor vessel by flooding the reactor cavity, is connected to both coolant injection nozzles located at the annulus gap between the lower head and the thermal insulator of a reactor and the discharge loops which are used to drain the hot water of the annulus gap into either the cavity floor or a liquid eductor. The subcooled water at a fire protection system can be directly injected into the annulus gap through twenty-five (25) nozzles at the lowest, middle, and top injection headers by a pump. The hot water heated at the lower head will be drained into either the cavity floor and/or the liquid eductor via two discharge loops that consist of both a suction header in the annulus gap at the equator level of the lower head and four (4) leakage collectors at the outside of four (4) shear keys of a reactor vessel. Drainage and recirculation of the hot water can be achieved in two ways. The first way uses the pump for injecting the subcooled water and for recirculating the drained water in a reactor cavity. The second way uses a liquid eductor for draining the hot water, instead of discharging it into the reactor cavity floor, and a pump for recirculating the drained water blended with subcooled water through the liquid eductor.

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