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US 6,327,323 B1Granted
Multiple reactor containment building
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorsKenneth R. Rohde, Justin Lloyd Ford
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Abstract
A nuclear power plant includes at least two reactor vessels enclosed within a single containment building. In a first embodiment, the reactor vessels and steam generators operate separately from one another. In a second embodiment the reactor vessels jointly provide heat to a common header having a plurality of steam generators associated therewith. In a third embodiment, the reactor vessels are completely integrated with one another by means of a single control and coolant system.
Claims4
A single containment building for a nuclear reactor, comprising:
- at least two reactor vessels each having an independent ability to generate thermal energy which is transferred away from said at least two reactor vessels by means of coolant contained within a coolant system, wherein said at least two reactor vessels have separate coolant systems, said thermal energy of said separate coolant systems transferred to a common header with at least one steam generator connected to said header such that there is independent control of each of said separate coolant systems and joint control of said header and said steam generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.