• Patent Title: Nuclear engineering plant and closure apparatus for its containment
  • Application No.: US13348830
    Application Date: 2012-01-12
  • Publication No.: US08509376B2
    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
  • Inventor: Bernd EckardtNorbert Losch
  • Applicant: Bernd EckardtNorbert 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
Nuclear engineering plant and closure apparatus for its containment
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.
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