US Patent 7684535 Reactor containment vessel

A reactor containment vessel of the present invention has a primary reactor containment vessel disposing a dry well for storing a reactor pressure vessel, a wet well for storing a pressure suppression pool, and an equipment room disposing below said pressure suppression pool inside thereof. Further, the primary reactor containment vessel includes an outer cylindrical wall reaching to a base mat from a top slab of the primary reactor containment vessel and facing the drywell, the pressure suppression pool and the equipment room respectively, an inner cylindrical wall facing the pressure suppression pool and the equipment room respectively, and a pressure suppression pool floor partitioning among the pressure suppression pool and the equipment room, and an outside portion of the outer cylindrical wall, an inside portion of the inner cylindrical wall, an outside portion of the ceiling and a lower portion of the pressure suppression pool floor are formed of a steel plate reinforced concrete respectively.