In at least one embodiment, the liquid circulation system comprises a rotor located within a tank, a stator having a plurality of coils outside the tank, and an exterior tank wall that is non-magnetic and that is located next to the rotor and between the rotor and the stator,
wherein an axis (R) of rotation of the rotor is in parallel with the exterior tank wall, the coils of the stator are arranged along the axis (R) of rotation of the rotor so that the rotor is configured to be rotated by the stator in a touchless manner through the exterior tank wall by means of a varying electromagnetic field driven by the stator to circulate a liquid within the tank.

In at least one embodiment, the liquid circulation system comprises a rotor located within a tank, a stator having a plurality of coils outside the tank, and an exterior tank wall that is non-magnetic and that is located next to the rotor and between the rotor and the stator,
wherein an axis (R) of rotation of the rotor is in parallel with the exterior tank wall, the coils of the stator are arranged along the axis (R) of rotation of the rotor so that the rotor is configured to be rotated by the stator in a touchless manner through the exterior tank wall by means of a varying electromagnetic field driven by the stator to circulate a liquid within the tank.

A metal melt pump includes a bottomed cylinder body including a side wall and a bottom wall, a melt flow passage body including a melt flow passage that connects a suction port and an ejection port and being a body separate from the bottomed cylinder body, and a melt driving part including a magnetic field device and adapted to drive metal melt in the melt flow passage. The magnetic field device includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged such that different magnetic poles are alternately arrayed along a circumference of a shaft, and the melt flow passage body is removably provided on the bottomed cylinder body at a position below the bottomed cylinder body and where a magnetic force line from one of the permanent magnets penetrates through the bottom wall downward to reach the melt flow passage.

A metal melt pump includes a bottomed cylinder body including a side wall and a bottom wall, a melt flow passage body including a melt flow passage that connects a suction port and an ejection port and being a body separate from the bottomed cylinder body, and a melt driving part including a magnetic field device and adapted to drive metal melt in the melt flow passage. The magnetic field device includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged such that different magnetic poles are alternately arrayed along a circumference of a shaft, and the melt flow passage body is removably provided on the bottomed cylinder body at a position below the bottomed cylinder body and where a magnetic force line from one of the permanent magnets penetrates through the bottom wall downward to reach the melt flow passage.

A magnetohydrodynamic pump for use in pumping molten salts that improves upon existing solutions is disclosed. The magnetohydrodynamic pump utilizes a linear induction motor with a cavity lined with ceramic and an interior piece forcing the molten salt to travel through an annular space where the magnetic. The magnetic field generated by the windings of the linear motor produce a wave of flux that will drive currents in the molten salt thus producing a force that will cause the fluid to pump. It is also an object of the disclosed concept to provide an improved method of operating a magnetohydrodynamic pump.

A magnetohydrodynamic pump for use in pumping molten salts that improves upon existing solutions is disclosed. The magnetohydrodynamic pump utilizes a linear induction motor with a cavity lined with ceramic and an interior piece forcing the molten salt to travel through an annular space where the magnetic. The magnetic field generated by the windings of the linear motor produce a wave of flux that will drive currents in the molten salt thus producing a force that will cause the fluid to pump. It is also an object of the disclosed concept to provide an improved method of operating a magnetohydrodynamic pump.

The method includes configuring a nuclear reactor to at least partially mitigate liquid metal coolant backflow in the nuclear reactor in response to an at least partial failure of a primary electromagnetic pump (EMP) within a reactor pressure vessel of the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor being liquid metal-cooled, the primary EMP configured to circulate liquid metal coolant through at least a reactor core of the nuclear reactor, the configuring including, installing a backflow EMP within the reactor pressure vessel, such that when selectively activated, the backflow EMP at least partially mitigates liquid metal coolant backflow through the primary EMP.

The method includes configuring a nuclear reactor to at least partially mitigate liquid metal coolant backflow in the nuclear reactor in response to an at least partial failure of a primary electromagnetic pump (EMP) within a reactor pressure vessel of the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor being liquid metal-cooled, the primary EMP configured to circulate liquid metal coolant through at least a reactor core of the nuclear reactor, the configuring including, installing a backflow EMP within the reactor pressure vessel, such that when selectively activated, the backflow EMP at least partially mitigates liquid metal coolant backflow through the primary EMP.

A nuclear reactor is configured with an intermediate coolant loop for transferring thermal energy from the reactor core for a useful purpose. The intermediate coolant loop includes a bypass flowpath with an air heat exchanger for dumping reactor heat during startup and/or shutdown. A fluidic diode along the bypass flowpath asymmetrically restricts flow across the bypass flowpath, inhibiting flow in a first flow direction during a full power operating condition and allowing a relatively uninhibited flow in a second direction during a startup and/or shut down low power operating condition.

Disclosed in the present invention is an electromagnetic pump, including: a pump body; an inner iron core, including a central cylinder, an axis of the central cylinder basically coinciding with an axis of the electromagnetic pump; a plurality of outer iron cores, disposed at least partially surrounding the inner iron core; a winding, at least partially disposed on the outer iron cores; and a pump channel mechanism, at least partially disposed between the outer iron cores and the inner iron core, where the pump channel mechanism includes: a first pump channel wall, a second pump channel wall, a circulation channel, and a cavity dividing structure, and being used for supporting the first pump channel wall and the second pump channel wall, the cavity dividing structure being further used for dividing the circulation channel, to divide the circulation channel into a plurality of channels.