Corrosion resistant storage container for radioactive material

Patent · Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6826515

Schweitzer, D G; Davis, M S

This paper describes a corrosion resistant, radioactive-waste-material-isolating, long-term storage container for isolating radioactive waste material in a high level waste repository. It comprises: at least three completely sealed corrosion resistant canisters of different relative sizes, the canisters being arranged with all of the smaller canisters encased within and completely surrounded by and sealed within the largest canister. The smallest canister is encased within all of the other canister in the canisters, and spacer means disposed between juxtaposed pairs of the canisters, the spacer means being effective to space the canisters of each of the juxtaposed pairs from one another.

• Assignee: Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
• Patent Number(s): US 4935943; A
• Application Number: PPN: US s 6-645652; TRN: 90-031486
• OSTI ID: 6826515
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 30 Aug 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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