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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:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Josef Hollmann, Schlusselfeld, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376280 ; 376284 ; 376285 ;
Abstract
A nuclear power plant has a reactor core and a containment chamber for receiving core melt of the reactor core. A cooling system for cooling the containment chamber includes a flooding container to be filled with coolant fluid. A cooling pipe leads from the flooding container to the containment chamber. A passively opening closure element closes the cooling pipe in the flooding container and opens as a function of a level of the coolant fluid.