CONTROL ROD DRIVE AND LATCHING MECHANISM FOR A LIQUID-COOLED NUCLEAR REACTOR

摘要

Mechanism for displacing and securing the rod of a nuclear reactor control bar, comprising an enclosure coaxial with the rod and forming a hydraulic cylinder in which the rod slides while defining a decompression chamber, a device for mechanically securing the rod in its high position, and a positive displacement reciprocating pump inserted between the decompression chamber and the inside of the tank, whose piston is actuated electromagnetically means and causes at each backward and forward movement lifting of given amplitude of the rod and the device for securing the rod in the high position disengagable also electromagnetically.