Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for storing nuclear reactor fuel assemblies in a water pit

US4847042A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Werner Musiol · Erlangen, DE
Klaus Knecht · Erlangen, DE
Norbert Henzel · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 31, 1983
Grant date	Jul 11, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 31, 2003

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E30/30
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for storing nuclear reactor fuel assemblies in a water pit, includes means for holding an end of a fuel assembly and for transporting the fuel assembly through the water pit, a vessel disposed in the water pit having a closed bottom and an open top in communication with a water space in the water pit forming a vertically elongated well in the vessel for at least partly receiving a fuel assembly, a suction connection in communicaton with the well through the closed bottom of the vessel, a suction pump connected to the suction connection, a shielding container, and a filter disposed in the shielding container and connected to the pump for collecting deposits suctioned from the well.

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