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Flowserve – Anchor Darling Vacuum Breaker Valves Vacuum Breaker Valves Problem downstream) connected to the downcomers It is not surprising that an ordinary swing Certain accident scenarios in boiling water and the upstream side open to the check valve failed to function, in view of the reactors that results in suction of reactor containment or a dry well atmosphere. actual operating conditions. The check valve coolant into the suppression pool. must be bubbletight with 0.1 psid across the The swing check valves are required to seal disc. To break the vacuum, the valve must be Solution tightly when there is pressure in the fully open with 0.4 psid across the disc. This Flowserve-Anchor/Darling vacuum breaker downcomer. This ensures that the MSR type of sensitivity is not inherent in the valves designed to relieve vacuum between discharge goes only to the suppression pool ordinary swing check valve design. The small the reactor and suppression pool water. and does not pressurize the containment. On force available from the 0.4 psid is insufficient the other hand, the swing check valves must to overcome the weight of the disc and the Check valves used as vacuum breakers in open to relieve the vacuum whenever the hinge bearing friction. Adding a main steam downcomers have been a pressure in the downcomer is less than that of counterweight to overcome this bearing continuing problem in Boiling Water Reactors. the containment. The check valves originally fric