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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 1977
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean Defauchy, St-Michel-sur-Orge, FR;
Claude Malaval, Antony, FR;
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176 62 ; 176 40 ; 176 65 ; 176 87 ;
Abstract
A cooling circuit for the main reactor vessel is limited on one side by the main vessel and a flow-reversing baffle shell and on the other side by the flow-reversing baffle shell and a counter-baffle shell which surrounds the primary vessel. The cooling circuit is supplied with a fraction of the cold liquid metal which is present within an intervessel space between the counter-baffle shell and the primary vessel. An annular chamber is located above the cold liquid metal and filled with an inert gas at a pressure which maintains the gas/liquid metal interface below the top of the flow-reversing baffle shell.