Device for collecting and cooling reactor-meltdown products

US5659589A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Lothar Wistuba · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Gerhard Hau · Albstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 1995
• Grant date: Aug 19, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2015

Classification

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

Abstract

A device for collecting reactor-meltdown products from a reactor pressure vessel includes an expansion chamber for receiving the reactor-meltdown products and for receiving a coolant, such as cooling water, for cooling the reactor-meltdown products spreading in the expansion chamber. The expansion chamber is disposed laterally of the reactor pressure vessel and has a floor and a cooling system in the floor.