Nuclear energy plant with closed working gas circuit

US4120750A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kernforschungsanlage Lulich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried Forster · Alsdorf, DE
• Peter Quell · Aachen, DE
• Berthold Sack · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1975
• Grant date: Oct 17, 1978
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E30/30
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A nuclear energy plant with a closed circuit for the working gas, in which nuclear reactor operable to heat up the working gas, is through a plurality of gas conduits arranged in parallel, connected to a plurality of turbo-sets for generating electric energy and to circuit components following the turbo-sets. One turbo-set each and the respective circuit components associated therewith are respectively arranged in common structural units which are radially arranged around the nuclear reactor. Each of the structural units comprises a first connection for a hot gas conduit withdrawing the heated working gas from the reactor and a second connection for a cold gas conduit for conveying the working gas to the nuclear reactor after the working gas has passed through the respective circuit components.