Fuel charging and discharging for a gas cooled, ceramic fuelled, nuclear power reactor

Claim 1

A HORIZONTALLY-FUELLED, CLOSED CIRCUIT, GAS-COOLED NUCLEAR REACTOR, COMPRISING A REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL; A GRAPHITE MODERATED REACOTR WITHIN SAID REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL AND ADAPTED TO HOLD HORIZONTALLY-POSITIONED CERAMIC FUEL ELEMENTS; CHARGING MEANS FOR INSERTING SAID FUEL ELEMENTS INTO SAID REACTOR; DISCHARGING MEANS FOR REMOVING SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS FROM SAID REACTOR; REMOVAL MEANS FOR DISCHARGING SAID SPEND FUEL ELEMENTS FROM SAID DISCHARGING MEANS; DLEVATOR PRESSURE VESSEL MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE MAIN REACOTR PRESSURE VESSEL, AND HOUSIG SAID CHARGING AND DISCHARGING MEANS AND SAID REMOVAL MEANS; SAID ELEVATOR PRESSURE VESSEL MEANS BEING SUBJECT TO AND CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING THE GAS PRESSURE PREVAILING IN THE MAIN REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL; A CENTRALLY-INTERRUPTED HORIZONTAL STATIC TRACK SYSTEM OPPOSITE EACH FUELLING FACE OF SAID REACTOR AND UPON WHICH SAID CHARGING AND DISCHARGING MEANNS ARE ADAPTED TO RIDE; A VERTICAL TRACK CENTRALLY INTERRUPTING EACH OF SAID HORIZONTAL STATIC TRACK SYSTEMS AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY INTO SAID ELEVATOR PRESSURE MEANS; SUPPLY MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID ELEVATOR PRESSURE MEANS AND ADAPTED TO INSERT SAID FUEL ELEMENTS INTO SAID CHARGING MEANS; ELEVATING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID CHARGING AND DISCHARGING MEANS ALONG SAID VERTICAL TRACK BETWEEN THE FACE OF SAID REACTOR AND THEINTERIOR OF SAID ELEVATOR PRESSURE VESSEL MEANS AND MEANS FOR EJECTING SAID SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS FROM THE PRESSURE ZONE OF SAID PRESSURE VESSEL.