Underground nuclear power plant
AssigneeSerbex Technology Y Valores, S.L.
InventorJavier Larrion
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Abstract
A nuclear power plant having buried buildings that include a containment building housing a nuclear reactor, a power generation building housing turbines, and a nuclear material storage building. A borated cooling water tank is located above the containment building and can gravity feed water thereto through cooling pipes. Steam exhaust pipes extend from the containment building to the bottom of the water tank. A float and valve arrangement provides seawater to keep the water tank at a constant water level. Horizontal tunnels have manually operated hatches to isolate the different buildings from one another. Vertical tunnels have gravity elevators.
Claims26
A nuclear power plant, comprising at least:
- a containment building inside which a nuclear reactor is located,
- a power generation building inside which turbines and other electricity-generating components are located, and
- a nuclear material building for storing nuclear waste or nuclear fuel,
- said containment building, power generation building and nuclear material building are buried and said containment building and nuclear material building are connected by cooling pipes with at least one cooling water tank located above the containment building and nuclear material building and communicated with the sea and below sea level, wherein water contained in the cooling water tank falls due to gravity when needed to cool or flood said containment building and nuclear material building:
- said nuclear power plant further comprising:
- pipes configured for steam exhaust coming from at least the containment building and ending at a bottom of the water tank, and
- valve and float systems for keeping the water tank at a constant water level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.