Hanging core support system for a nuclear reactor
This patent describes a nuclear reactor having a guard vessel disposed in a ground connected foundation, an open top reactor vessel having an uppermost portion closed by a deck, a pool of sodium coolant in the reactor vessel, and a core disposed in the coolant. The improvement described here comprises an integral core support platform underlying the core, and integral linkage means including a flange lying directly on the uppermost portion of the reactor vessel and lying directly under the deck, a shirt depending downwardly from the flange adjacent but independent of the reactor vessel, and beams between the skirt and the support platform. The core support means operatively suspends the reactor core independently of the reactor vessel and the deck.
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4645638
- OSTI ID:
- 6744402
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 26 Apr 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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