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Spent nuclear fuel storage racks

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6129501

A storage rack in which a plurality of tubular shrouds are assembled together in a checkerboard arrangement, each shroud having side walls arranged to absorb sub-atomic particles such as neutrons. With this arrangement, spent atomic fuel rods may be assembled in the shrouds and also in the spaces which are surrounded by shrouds, so that each adjacent grouping of fuel rods has interposed therebetween an emission absorbing wall.

Assignee:
Brooks and Perkins, Inc.
Patent Number(s):
US 4143276
OSTI ID:
6129501
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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