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.

A magnetic inductor for an electromagnetic pump, the magnetic inductor being intended for being supplied with a polyphase current containing at least two phases, the magnetic inductor comprising a magnetic inductor body and for each of the phases of the polyphase current, N pairs of elementary coils with the same winding direction following one another. The connection between the elementary coils associated with the phase is as follows: for each from the first to the N-th pair, each of the first and second elementary coils has one of the ends thereof connected to the end of the same type as the elementary coil of the same type that directly follows same.

An annular linear induction electromagnetic pump having axial guide vanes is provided. m axial guide vanes are uniformly arranged in a flow channel of the electromagnetic pump in a circumferential direction, and a magnitude of m is equal to a number of external stators. A length of each of the guide vanes is precisely determined by a parameter P, and the value of the parameter P is calculated together by the number of the external stators, a central radius of the flow channel, a magnetic Reynolds number, a wave number of a traveling magnetic field and the mean fluid velocity. The axial guide vanes can significantly mitigate the impact on the flow field stability caused by uneven circumferential disturbances of the magnetic field and flow field, thereby achieving a flow stabilization effect with less hydraulic losses and greatly improving the flow stability in operation under off-design conditions.

An annular linear induction electromagnetic pump having axial guide vanes is provided. m axial guide vanes are uniformly arranged in a flow channel of the electromagnetic pump in a circumferential direction, and a magnitude of m is equal to a number of external stators. A length of each of the guide vanes is precisely determined by a parameter P, and the value of the parameter P is calculated together by the number of the external stators, a central radius of the flow channel, a magnetic Reynolds number, a wave number of a traveling magnetic field and the mean fluid velocity. The axial guide vanes can significantly mitigate the impact on the flow field stability caused by uneven circumferential disturbances of the magnetic field and flow field, thereby achieving a flow stabilization effect with less hydraulic losses and greatly improving the flow stability in operation under off-design conditions.

The present invention provides an annular linear induction electromagnetic pump having axial guide vanes, wherein m axial guide vanes are uniformly arranged in a flow channel of the electromagnetic pump in a circumferential direction, a magnitude of m is equal to a number of external stators, and a length of each of the guide vanes is determined together by the number of the external stators, a central radius of the flow channel, a magnetic Reynolds number, and a wave number of a traveling magnetic field. The axial guide vanes can significantly mitigate the impact on the flow field stability caused by uneven circumferential disturbances of the magnetic field and flow field, thereby achieving a flow stabilization effect and greatly improving the flow stability in operation under off-design conditions.

The present invention provides an annular linear induction electromagnetic pump having axial guide vanes, wherein m axial guide vanes are uniformly arranged in a flow channel of the electromagnetic pump in a circumferential direction, a magnitude of m is equal to a number of external stators, and a length of each of the guide vanes is determined together by the number of the external stators, a central radius of the flow channel, a magnetic Reynolds number, and a wave number of a traveling magnetic field. The axial guide vanes can significantly mitigate the impact on the flow field stability caused by uneven circumferential disturbances of the magnetic field and flow field, thereby achieving a flow stabilization effect and greatly improving the flow stability in operation under off-design conditions.

A nuclear reactor is designed to couple the load path of the control elements with the reactor core, thus reducing the opportunity for differential movement between the control elements and the reactor core. A cartridge core barrel can be fabricated in a manufacturing facility to include the reactor core, control element supports, and control element drive system. The cartridge core barrel can be mounted to a reactor vessel head, and any movement, such as through seismic forces, transmits an equal direction and magnitude to the control elements and the reactor core, thus inhibiting the opportunity for differential movement.

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.

A nuclear reactor is configured with a primary coolant loop for transferring heat away from the nuclear reactor core. In a shutdown event, the primary coolant pump may stop pumping primary coolant through the reactor core, resulting in decay heat buildup within the reactor core. An inertial energy coast down system can store kinetic energy while the nuclear reactor is operating and then release the stored kinetic energy to cause the primary coolant to continue to flow through the nuclear reactor core to remove decay heat. The inertial energy coast down system may include an impeller and a flywheel having a mass. During normal reactor operation, the flowing primary coolant spins up the impeller and flywheel, and upon a shutdown event where the primary coolant pump stops pumping, the flywheel and impeller can cause the primary coolant to continue to flow during a coast down of the flywheel and impeller.

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.