Fuel element exchange system

Details Fuel element exchange system Fuel element exchange system

1973-12-18

1976-03-09

Feinberg, Samuel

G21C 1920

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039430375

ABSTRACT:
In a nuclear reactor which is housed in a round building and which has a reactor pressure vessel in a reactor pool, a fuel element storage pool of arcuate outline, a gate-controlled channel interconnecting the two pools and an operating platform adjacent the pools, there is provided a fuel element exchange system which has a first fuel element exchange gantry supported on a column disposed in the center of the reactor building and on a rail which is held by the building wall and which is situated above the level of the operating platform, and a second fuel element exchange gantry supported under the first gantry in such a manner that the second gantry may freely pass under the first gantry. There is further provided a fuel element box-stripping machine at the storage pool immediately across from the channel within the operational range of both the first and the second gantries.

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patent: 3072554 (1963-01-01), Madsen
patent: 3138535 (1964-06-01), Fortescue et al.
patent: 3143479 (1964-08-01), Hargo et al.
patent: 3180800 (1965-04-01), Fortescue et al.

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