Device for cooling containments
AssigneeRobatel
InventorCamille Bochard
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Abstract
A device for cooling containments, and particularly silos for storing irradiated nuclear fuels, comprising at least two rows of vertical tubes that clamps maintain applied against the wall to be cooled, the free space or housing which contains tubes being filled with a mass of a material ensuring good heat transfer. The ambient air may, by natural convection, traverse the tubes to dissipate the heat into the atmosphere.
Claims8
Device for cooling containments having an outer wall of the type comprising, parallel tubes fixed to the outer wall of the containment with spaced clamps, said tubes being within a housing defined between the outer wall and a concentric outer envelope, said tube being embedded in a mass obtained by casting a hardenable material adapted to ensure good heat transfer by conduction, and said tubes being disposed to form at least two concentric rows which are hydraulically connected in parallel.
A device for cooling a containment silo for storing irradiated nuclear fuels of a type comprising, parallel tubes fixed to the outer wall of the containment with spaced clamps, said tubes being within an annular housing defined between the outer wall and a concentric outer envelope, said tubes being embedded in a mass obtained by casting a hardenable material adapted to ensure good heat transfer by conduction, and said tubes being disposed to form at least two concentric rows which are hydraulically connected in parallel.
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