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Title: Containment seal

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1771484

A containment seal seals a cable or tube to an opening accessing a containment vessel. The containment seal includes a lower body that attaches over the opening into the containment vessel. The cable or tube is inserted through a hole that extends axially through an upper body of the containment seal. Compression fittings are attached to the top and bottom ends of the upper body sealing the cable inside of the upper body. The cable sealed inside of the upper body in inserted through the lower body and into the opening accessing the containment vessel and a lower portion of the upper body is seated into the opening formed in the lower body. A retaining device compresses the upper body down against the lower body forming a seal between the upper body and lower body.

Research Organization:
NuScale Power, LLC, Corvallis, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
NE0000633
Assignee:
NuScale Power, LLC (Corvallis, OR)
Patent Number(s):
10,796,808
Application Number:
15/810,976
OSTI ID:
1771484
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 11/13/2017
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

GTMS connector for oil and gas market patent-application February 2016
Method and apparatus to prevent rotation patent-application February 2018
Joint for interfacing steel head closure and prestressed concrete reactor vessel patent May 1998
High pressure electrical conductivity probe patent March 1985
Electrical penetrator assembly patent August 2019
Electrical Feedthrough Assemblies for Containment Structures Having Specially Controlled Environments and Method of Making patent August 1974
Instrument penetration for high pressure vessels patent February 1988
Electrical penetration assembly for a nuclear reactor vessel patent-application July 2018

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