Apparatus and method for storing spent fuel assemblies

Patent · Tue Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6860885

Queiser, H; Eckardt, B

An apparatus for storing spent fuel assemblies of a nuclear reactor includes a fuel-assembly transport cask having a hollow chamber for receiving therein at least one fuel assembly and having a cover for gas-tightly closing off an opening to the hollow chamber, including means for supplying a trace gas into the hollow chamber, an additional cover defining a leakage detection chamber covering the cross-section of the opening to the hollow chamber, and a measuring device for the trace gas connected to the leakage detection chamber for monitoring gas-tightness of the closure of the opening to the hollow chamber, and method for using the apparatus.

• Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Federal Republic of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4427893
• OSTI ID: 6860885
• Resource Relation: Patent Priority Date: Priority date 13 Dec 1979, Germany, Federal Republic of (F.R. Germany); Other Information: PAT-APPL-215136
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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