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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1990
Willem J Oosterkamp, Los Gatos, CA (US);
General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a nuclear reactor facility wherein a nuclear reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is housed within an annular sealed drywell, an annular sealed wetwell houses said drywell, a pressure suppression pool of liquid is disposed in said wetwell and is connected to said drywell by submerged vents, a condenser line connects said drywell to an isolation condenser, and a bleedline from said isolation condenser is connected to said pool and terminates under the surface of said pool. The improvement of the present invention comprises a liquid reservoir disposed in said drywell and a standpipe disposed in said wetwell. The reservoir and the standpipe are connected by a duct which is located below the surface of said reservoir a distance, D. The area of the reservoir is at least 25 times larger than the area of said standpipe.