| Abstract: | The function and operating principles of the closed deaeration loop of the reactor are described, with an account of operating experience of the deaeration loop during the first two years and the results of studies of deaeration management of the primary-loop water. The deaeration system in the VVR- M reactor is reported as not being the only means for removing the detonating mixture from the primary loop water and inhibiting the formation of gas bubbles containing detonating mixture in the loop piping.The closed loop for deaeration and combustion of detonating mixture designed and fabricated for the VVR-M reactor of the A. F. Ioffe Physics and Engineering Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences has reduced to a mere tenth the amount of radioactive gases vented to the atmosphere.Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 19, No. 6. pp. 517–521, December, 1965Report read by G. I. Budker at the International Conference on High-Energy Accelerators (Frascati, Italy). |
