Title: Fuel element exchange system

Abstract: In a nuclear reactor which is housed in a round building and which has a reactor pressure vessel in a reactor pool, a fuel element storage pool of arcuate outline, a gate-controlled channel interconnecting the two pools and an operating platform adjacent the pools, there is provided a fuel element exchange system which has a first fuel element exchange gantry supported on a column disposed in the center of the reactor building and on a rail which is held by the building wall and which is situated above the level of the operating platform, and a second fuel element exchange gantry supported under the first gantry in such a manner that the second gantry may freely pass under the first gantry. There is further provided a fuel element box-stripping machine at the storage pool immediately across from the channel within the operational range of both the first and the second gantries.

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Inventors: Siegert, Heiner (Wiesbaden, DT)
Ristow, Ulrich (Neu-Isenburg, DT)

Application Number: 425772
Filing Date: 1973-12-18
Publication_date: 1976-03-09
Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, DT)
Primary Class(es): 376/263 376/268, 976/DIG258
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US Patent Ref:

3072554	Jan, 1963	Madsen	176/31.
3138535	Jun, 1964	Fortescue et al.	176/30.
3143479	Aug, 1964	Hargo et al.	176/30.
3180800	Apr, 1965	Fortescue et al.	176/30.

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Primary Examiner: Feinberg, Samuel
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Attorney: Spencer & Kaye