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- Patent Title: Machinery system allowing replacement of old reactor with a new reactor in nuclear power electric generating station
- Patent Title (中): 机械系统允许在核电站发电站更换新的反应堆
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Application No.: US12459677Application Date: 2009-07-07
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Publication No.: US08189731B2Publication Date: 2012-05-29
- Inventor: John Jugl
- Applicant: John Jugl
- Main IPC: G21C19/00
- IPC: G21C19/00

Abstract:
The machinery system and its application herewith, intended to create an opening in the roof of a Reactor Primary Containment of Generation II and III Nuclear Power Electric Generating Station. This opening is necessary to replace an aging nuclear reactor with a new, safer and more efficient reactor. Generation II and III Nuclear Power Electric Generating Stations include General Electric (GE) Boiling Water Reactor BWR/2, 3, 4, 5 and BWR/6 located in Mark II, and Mark III wet containments and Pressurized Water Reactors manufactured by Westinghouse, Combustion Engineering and Babcock and Wilcox located in dry containments. Until this time, existing reactor replacement was not possible due to Reactor Primary Containment structural enclosure configuration. The Dual Head Vertical Milling Machine System will remove a Reactor Primary Containment Dome Segment thus providing an opening, allowing reactor replacement and the electric generating station to remain operational for an other 40 years and beyond. Original containment integrity will be reinstated by closure of the opening.
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