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4427893 Apparatus and method for storing spent fuel assemblies  
Apparatus for storing spent fuel assemblies of a nuclear reactor including a fuel-assembly transport cask having a hollow chamber for receiving therein at least one fuel assembly and having a cover...
4427222 Device for the tight joining of two parts  
The invention relates to a device for the tight joining of two parts comprising tightening means of the screw-nut type compressing a gasket between the two parts. A compression part and an elastic...
4414475 Shielding container for storing weak to medially active waste  
Shielding container assembly for storing weak to medially active waste in a storage barrel, including a shielding container having a substantially square cross section surrounding the storage...
4410802 Storage depot for radioactive material  
Vertical drilling of cylindrical holes in the soil, and the lining of such holes, provides storage vaults called caissons. A guarded depot is provided with a plurality of such caissons covered by...
4404165 Process for carrying away the decay heat of radioactive substances  
In this process, the decay heat of radioactive substances is carried away by circulating liquid coolant. Some of the liquid coolant is vaporized by the decay heat. The circulation of liquid in the...
4399366 Separator assembly for use in spent nuclear fuel shipping cask  
A separator assembly for use in a spent nuclear fuel shipping cask has a honeycomb-type wall structure defining parallel cavities for holding nuclear fuel assemblies. Tubes formed of an effective...
4390496 Gaging device  
An in-basin measuring system for determining changes in the longitudinal profile of nuclear fuel channel members which have been subjected to radiation in the reactor core section while maintaining...
4389568 Method for monitoring irradiated nuclear fuel using Cerenkov radiation  
A method is provided for monitoring irradiated nuclear fuel inventories located in a water-filled storage pond wherein the intensity of the Cerenkov radiation emitted from the water in the vicinity...
4388268 Transportation and/or storage containers for radioactive materials  
Conveying and/or storage containers for radioactive materials which emit gamma and neutron radiation consist essentially of a container body having a shielding function for gamma radiation, cooling...
4384489 Method of monitoring stored nuclear fuel elements  
To monitor a nuclear fuel element or fuel elements located in a store, e.g. a pond in a swimming pool reactor, the store is illuminated ultrasonically using one or more transducers transmitting...
4382060 Radioactive fuel cell storage rack  
A radioactive fuel cell storage rack is comprised of structural elements including elements which are hollow and cruciform in section. Each leg of the cruciform structural element includes a...
4381844 Lid seal for nuclear waste containers  
A folded gasket formed of a length of flexible fabric-like material is disclosed as being disposed between juxtaposed surfaces at the juncture of the lid periphery to a container mouth to adapt the...
4377509 Packaging for ocean disposal of low-level radioactive waste material  
A packaging system for storage of containers of low-level radioactive waste consisting of a concrete shell structure that houses the containers and a dry filler material that surrounds them. Void...
4375104 Pool gateway seal  
A device for sealing a gateway between interconnectable pools in a nuclear facility comprising a frame supporting a liquid impermeable sheet positioned in a U-shaped gateway between the pools. An...
4366114 Dry storage for spent fuel assemblies  
Dry storage system for spent nuclear-reactor fuel assemblies including a building having an interior secured against external influence, devices disposed in the building for removing from shipping...
4366115 Storage rack for assemblages of nuclear fuel elements  
Storage rack for assemblages of nuclear fuel elements of polygonal or circular cross-section comprised of a plurality of storage chambers in the form of a hollow stem having a cross-section adapted...
4366113 Installation for a nuclear power station with staggered swimming pools  
In an installation for a nuclear power station comprising a "reactor building" with a first swimming pool for handling of fuel units and a fuel building with a second swimming pool for the...
4356146 Incoming and outgoing air conveyance for dry storage with self heating radioactive materials  
There is described an incoming and outgoing air conveyance system for dry storage with self heating radioactive materials in which the incoming air openings and shafts and the outgoing air openings...
4356062 Rack for storing bundles of nuclear fuel elements  
The rack has a base plate which is formed with a pattern of holes and tube sections which are located under the holes. Feet are threaded into the tube sections and can be adjusted through the tube...
4355000 Lightweight, removable gate seal  
In a nuclear fuel reactor well, storage pool or the like, a lightweight, removable pneumatic action sealing means is disclosed for providing a leak-tight seal between the walls of said well and an...
4355001 Reactor unit and a nuclear installation which uses said reactor unit  
A reactor unit and a nuclear installation which uses said reactor unit and method of fitting up such an installation. Said installation includes mainly a reactor unit (2) which constitutes a...
4353391 Radioactive materials shipping cask anticontamination enclosure  
An anticontamination device for use in storing shipping casks for radioactive materials comprising (1) a seal plate assembly; (2) a double-layer plastic bag; and (3) a water management system or...
4348352 Rack for intermediate storage of nuclear reactor fuel element bundles  
After their removal from the reactor, fuel element rods of nuclear reactors are stored in bundles in a water tank before they are transported away. The invention relates to a rack, to be installed...
4343416 Container for nuclear fuel powders  
A critically safe container for the storage and rapid discharge of enriched nuclear fuel material in powder form is disclosed. The container has a hollow, slab-shaped container body that has one...
4342620 Box insert for storage of spent nuclear fuel assembly  
A box insert for receiving nuclear fuel is formed from a plurality of vertically extending plates arranged as an open-ended polygonal container having a smaller cross-sectional area than the...
4339411 Shielding container for the transportation and/or for storage of spent fuel elements  
Shielding containers are needed for the transportation and or storage of spent fuel elements from nuclear reactors, which containers permit ready adjustment to the transportation conditions in...
4336460 Spent fuel cask  
A cask for containing spent nuclear fuel during transport. The cask has a pair of multiple element trunnions disposed on opposite sides of the cask adjacent the top thereof. The multiple elements...
4334875 Process for forming a sleeve by winding and a device for executing the method  
A process and device forms a sleeve from a flat, rectangular blank by winding the blank around a mandrel after it has been clamped to the mandrel surface and where the clamp passes under a presser...
4331244 Modular nuclear fuel assembly rack  
A modular nuclear fuel assembly rack constructed of an array of identical cells, each cell constructed of a plurality of identical flanged plates. The unique assembly of the plates into a rigid...
4330711 Container combination for the transportation and storage of radioactive waste especially nuclear reactor fuel elements  
For the transportation and storage of irradiated nuclear fuel elements there are needed combinations of inner and outer containers wherein the inner container should be usable for the storage of...
4326918 Storage assembly for spent nuclear fuel  
A technique for storing spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor is disclosed herein. This technique utilizes a housing including a closed inner chamber for containing the fuel rods and a thermally...
4326130 Shielding container with neutron shielding for the transportation and/or storage of spent fuel elements  
There is provided a shielding container for the transportation and/or storage of spent fuel elements having a neutron shield on the outer container surface wherein the neutron shield is made of a...
4320847 Container for receiving and storing spent fuel elements  
For the storage of spent fuel elements there are needed containers consisting of can and cover which undergo a preliminary sealing in inserting the cover, produce a uniform weld gap, are not jammed...
4319960 Modular nuclear fuel assembly rack  
A modular nuclear fuel assembly rack constructed of an array of identical cells, each cell constructed of a plurality of identical flanged plates. The unique assembly of the plates into a rigid...
4318492 Fuel assembly storage capsule for storing spent fuel assemblies  
Fuel assembly storage capsule for storing spent fuel assemblies in water-filled fuel pits, the capsule being formed of a sleeve sealed at the bottom thereof, having an upper opening closable by a...
4317702 Rack for storing fuel assembly clusters in a water pit  
The rack is constructed of rack elements having square fuel assembly cluster-receiving tubes which are fastened to bed plates at a small distance. These bed plates are so small that they can be...
4313793 Machine for removing in-core instrument assemblies from a nuclear reactor  
A machine for smoothly and controllably winding or unwinding a stiff in-core-instrument tube onto and off of a reel during ythe refueling of a nuclear reactor. The machine includes a frame (33) and...
4310034 Joining apparatus between a transportation container and a horizontal wall of a discharge  
Joining apparatus between a container equipped in its upper part with a plug and the wall of a discharge enclosure provided with a horizontal orifice in the lower part thereof and located above...
4307679 Submergible barge retrievable storage and permanent disposal system for radioactive waste  
A submergible barge and process for submerging and storing radioactive waste material along a seabed. A submergible barge receives individual packages of radwaste within segregated cells. The cells...
4306397 Mounting means for a storage container for fuel assembly clusters  
The mounting means for the storage containers consists of an upper strip of stainless steel, a lower strip of ordinary structural steel and connecting posts which are welded between the two strips....
4306936 Method of cooling a fuel assembly-transport container and cooling circuit for performing the method  
Method of cooling a fuel assembly-transport container with a cooling circuit which includes the interior of the transport container and is traversible by a vaporizable coolant such as water, which...
4305786 Shutdown reactivity meter system for nuclear fuel storage cells  
A system for determining whether a self-sustaining neutron chain reaction (i.e., criticality) may occur as each successive nuclear fuel element is added to a liquid-filled tank. This is...
4305787 Storage rack for spent radioactive fuel  
A rack for storing spent radioactive fuel is disclosed in which a set of cells, consisting of self-supporting metal tubes arranged in a staggered fashion with respect to each other, and joined to...
4299659 Apparatus for storing self-heating radioactive materials  
Self heating radioactive materials, especially irradiated fuel elements, are stored by using dry storage in which the stored material is arranged enclosed vertically in containers. A better cooling...
4295401 Apparatus for disposing of radioactive fuel channels  
Irradiated tubular rectangular fuel channels from a nuclear reactor are temporarily stored under water. In order to dispose of these highly radioactive channels and to ship them to permanent burial...
4293773 Method for containing spent nuclear fuel rods in a protective container to facilitate disposal  
Disclosed is a method for preventing the scattering of radioactive material in spent nuclear fuel rods into the environment. The method comprises placing one or more of the spent fuel rods within a...
4291536 Apparatus enabling the storage of radioactive wastes and the recovery of the extraneous heat emitted thereby, and a storage element for incorporation in such apparatus  
A storage element for use in the recovery of heat originating from the cooling of radioactive wastes including a first element for the storage of radioactive waste having a first closed shell...
4292528 Cask for radioactive material and method for preventing release of neutrons from radioactive material  
A cask for radioactive material, such as nuclear reactor fuel or spent nuclear reactor fuel, includes a plurality of associated walled internal compartments for containing such radioactive...
4290906 Apparatus for cutting channel box for fuel assembly and method therefor  
Apparatus including two types of cutting means or roller cutters and shears for cutting a channel box for a fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor and method therefor. The roller cutters and shears...
4288997 Cooling system for shipping casks  
Cooling system for containers for transporting heat-emitting parts from nuclear installations, including a closed loop connected to the container for carrying water and steam or water alone, the...