Published June 22, 1978 | Version v1
Patent

Installation and process for retubing a steam generator

Description

The invention concerns steam generators for pressure water reactors and in particular an installation and process for retubing such a generator when this steam generator is placed vertically in a containment vessel. The description is given of a process for removing the internal structure comprising the heat exchange tubes of a steam generator in place in the containment vessel, so as to allow the re-installation of a new internal structure

Availability note (English)

Available from Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle, Paris (France).

Abstract (French)

L'invention concerne les generateurs de vapeur pour reacteurs a eau pressurisee et plus particulierement une installation et un procede pour le retubage d'un tel generateur de vapeur alors que ce generateur de vapeur est dispose verticalement dans une cuve de confinement. On decrit un procede d'enlevement de la structure interieure comportant les tubes d'echange de chaleur, d'un generateur de vapeur en place dans la cuve de confinement, de facon a permettre la reinstallation d'une structure interieure neuve

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (French)
Installation et procede pour le retubage d'un generateur de vapeur

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
16 p.
IPC:
Int. Cl. F22b1/02; G21d5/12.
IPC
Int. Cl. F22b1/02; G21d5/12.
Patent number
FR patent document 2395461/A/

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
11514330
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
PWR TYPE REACTORS; STEAM GENERATORS
Descriptors DEC
BOILERS; REACTORS; VAPOR GENERATORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Notes
Priority claim: 24 Jun 1977, US.