Liquid metal-cooled nuclear reactor

Patent · Tue Dec 07 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6534135

Kayser, G

Integrated nuclear reactor cooled by a liquid metal and incorporating a main vessel sealed in its upper part by a slab, an inner vessel containing the core, the latter resting on a system for the positioning and supply of the core with liquid metal and which is called the support, the latter itself resting on a supporting structure bearing on the bottom of the main vessel of the reactor, wherein it comprises an inner baffle cladding the side wall and bottom of the main vessel and defining with the latter an intermediate space filled with the liquid metal, tubes for supplying a liquid metal to the intermediate space below the bottom of the main vessel and tubes for returning said liquid metal to an auxiliary exchanger in order to remove heat from the intermediate space.

• Assignee: Commissariat A L Energie Atomique (France)
• Patent Number(s): US 4362694
• OSTI ID: 6534135
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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