Canister method of disposing of radioactive waste

Patent · Tue Nov 25 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6552623

Baatz, H; Rittscher, D

A substantially cylindrical canister is oriented in an upright position with its fill hole directed upwardly, and hydraulic cement is loaded into the top of this canister. The canister is then tipped on its side and connected via a swivel coupling to a suction line and to a line through which a radioactive-waste slurry may be fed. The interior of the canister is then evacuated and the canister is rotated about a horizontal axis passing through this swivel coupling. Radioactive waste is then sucked into the canister by the subatomospheric pressure therein and is intimately mixed with cement already inside the canister by inwardly projecting mixing vanes provided inside the canister.

• Assignee: Steag Kernergie Gmbh (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4235739
• OSTI ID: 6552623
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BUILDING MATERIALS
CEMENTS
CONTAINERS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
PACKAGING
POLLUTANTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES