Technology for producing vessel structures of the main circulation pump for BREST reactor
One of the important joints of a liquid metal fast reactor is the main circulation pump. In the course of the present research, a preproduction model of the pressure chamber, the most labor-consuming unit of the main circulation pump, was manufactured. This complex welded structure was made of 10Kh15N9S3B3 (EP-302Sh) steel sheets; fixtures and accessories were also manufactured, and as a result the metal consumption of the structure decreased. Technological documentation was made for bending, stamping of parts of the pressure chamber, welding of components, their heat and mechanic treatment, and its assembling. According to the results of this work, the existing technological documentation was adjusted in the context of the new data for pressure chamber of the main pump.