Bottom shield for a gas cooled high temperature nuclear reactor

Patent · Tue Dec 25 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5790461

Schoening, J; Elter, C; Kolodzey, H J; Schwiers, H G; Stracke, W

A gas cooled, high temperature nuclear reactor is provided with a base plate arranged under the reactor core and over the bottom of the prestressed concrete pressure vessel serving as the bottom shield. The bottom shield comprises at least two plates arranged coaxially with respect to each other, one above the other. Each plate comprises several partially interconnected parts with the lower plate being placed at an axial and vertical distance from the bottom liner of the prestressed concrete pressure vessel and also from the upper plate.

• Assignee: Hochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4490328
• OSTI ID: 5790461
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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