- Patent Title: Nuclear engineering plant and closure apparatus for its containment
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Application No.: US13348830Application Date: 2012-01-12
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Publication No.: US08509376B2Publication Date: 2013-08-13
- Inventor: Bernd Eckardt , Norbert Losch
- Applicant: Bernd Eckardt , Norbert Losch
- Applicant Address: DE Erlangen
- Assignee: Areva GmbH
- Current Assignee: Areva GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Erlangen
- Agent Laurence A. Greenberg; Werner H. Stemer; Ralph E. Locher
- Priority: DE102006010826 20060307
- Main IPC: G21C9/00
- IPC: G21C9/00

Abstract:
A nuclear engineering plant has a containment, whose interior chamber is subdivided by a wall into a systems chamber and an operating chamber which is accessible during normal operation. The containment ensures a particularly high operational reliability, in particular also in incident situations, in which hydrogen is released in the systems chamber. For this purpose, a number of overflow openings are provided in the partition wall, the respective overflow opening is closed by a closure element of a closure apparatus which opens automatically when a trigger condition associated with the respective overflow opening is reached. Closure apparatuses are provided which open both as a function of pressure and independently of pressure. The closure apparatus furthermore has a closure element containing a bursting film or a bursting diaphragm. The closure apparatus is configured such that it frees the overflow opening automatically when a predetermined environment-side trigger temperature is reached.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120121057A1 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PLANT AND CLOSURE APPARATUS FOR ITS CONTAINMENT Public/Granted day:2012-05-17
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