Fuel rod shipping cask having peripheral fins

Patent · Tue Jan 23 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6974375

Efferding, L E

This patent describes a shipping cask for transporting radioactive material. It comprises: an inner vessel having an open end, a closed end and a heat conducting wall formed from an alloy containing iron; a plurality of substantially flat, heat conductive and mutually parallel ribs formed from an alloy containing iron, each of which has an inside and an outside edge, wherein the inside edge is welded to the outside surface of the heat conducting wall of the inner vessel by welds on either side of the inside edge, and wherein each rib is oriented substantially orthogonally with respect to the outside surface; a layer of neutron absorbing, cementitious material disposed over the outside wall of the inner vessel and between the mutually parallel ribs, and a plurality of flat fin members formed from an alloy containing iron.

• Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA
• Patent Number(s): A; US 4896046
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-189208A
• OSTI ID: 6974375
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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