Method for utilizing decay heat from radioactive nuclear wastes
Patent
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OSTI ID:4005148
Management of radioactive heat-producing waste material while safely utilizing the heat thereof is accomplished by encapsulating the wastes after a cooling period, transporting the capsules to a facility including a plurality of vertically disposed storage tubes, lowering the capsules as they arrive at the facility into the storage tubes, cooling the storage tubes by circulating a gas thereover, employing the so heated gas to obtain an economically beneficial result, and continually adding waste capsules to the facility as they arrive thereat over a substantial period of time.
- Research Organization:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- NSA Number:
- NSA-33-026895
- Assignee:
- to U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
- Patent Number(s):
- PAT-APPL-501,726.; US 3911684
- OSTI ID:
- 4005148
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1974 Aug 29; Other Information: F03G7/00. Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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