Thermal insulation device

Abstract

Thermal insulation device for insulating the upper area of the annular space separating the main vessel and safety vessel of a fast neutron nuclear reactor, said two vessels having a common vertical axis and are sealed in their upper part by a horizontal slab which is also responsible for the suspension of the two vessels, wherein the said device comprises a lower thermal insulation ring having a generally annular shape defining an inner peripheral edge spaced from the main vessel and fixed to the lower end of an inner thermal insulation baffle whose upper end is fixed to the main vessel, and an outer peripheral edge spaced from the safety vessel and fixed to the lower end of an outer thermal insulation baffle whose upper end is fixed to the safety vessel, each of the thermal insulation baffles being deformable so as to compensate any differential expansion or deformation of the vessels.

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