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Nuclear power plant with on-site storage capabilities

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5197784
A nuclear power plant constructed with a nuclear reactor core centrally mounted within an elongated, split chamber pressure vessel having contained solid state heat transfer conductors for transfer of heat from a liquid core coolant to a gas power medium in an upper heat exchange chamber of the pressure vessel, and having a discharge mechanism for dumping the reactor core when spent into a lower radioactive material storage chamber of the pressure vessel, the power plant including a power generating system having a steam turbine, an electrical generator and a gas compressor.
Assignee:
EDB-82-140832
Patent Number(s):
US 4313795
OSTI ID:
5197784
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English