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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1983
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for storing nuclear reactor fuel assemblies in a water pit, includes means for holding an end of a fuel assembly and for transporting the fuel assembly through the water pit, a vessel disposed in the water pit having a closed bottom and an open top in communication with a water space in the water pit forming a vertically elongated well in the vessel for at least partly receiving a fuel assembly, a suction connection in communicaton with the well through the closed bottom of the vessel, a suction pump connected to the suction connection, a shielding container, and a filter disposed in the shielding container and connected to the pump for collecting deposits suctioned from the well.