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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1987
Filed:
May. 24, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Didier Costes, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ; G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376285 ; 376289 ; 376290 ; 376293 ; 376404 ; 376461 ; 376281 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a nuclear reactor cooled by a liquid metal comprising a vessel (12) containing the reactor core (24), a vessel shaft (18) and a sealing slab (14). The bottom (12a) of the vessel rests on the bottom (52) of the vessel shaft via supports (54) defining between the said two bottoms a space (56) in which circulates a cooling fluid such as air. A skirt (74) surrounds vessel (12) and rests on the vessel shaft bottom (52) for supporting slab (14). Application to the construction of simpler and less expensive fast neutron reactors than those hitherto known.