Title: Method for utilizing decay heat from radioactive nuclear wastes

Abstract

Management of radioactive heat-producing waste material while safely utilizing the heat thereof is accomplished by encapsulating the wastes after a cooling period, transporting the capsules to a facility including a plurality of vertically disposed storage tubes, lowering the capsules as they arrive at the facility into the storage tubes, cooling the storage tubes by circulating a gas thereover, employing the so heated gas to obtain an economically beneficial result, and continually adding waste capsules to the facility as they arrive thereat over a substantial period of time.

Inventors:

Busey, H M

Issue Date:

1974-10-14

OSTI Identifier:

4005148

Patent Number(s):

3911684

Assignee:

to U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration

Patent Classifications (CPCs):

F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS F03G - SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS

G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21H - OBTAINING ENERGY FROM RADIOACTIVE SOURCES

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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS F03G - SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS

F03G7/00 - Mechanical-power-producing mechanisms, not otherwise provided for or using energy sources not otherwise provided for {

G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21H - OBTAINING ENERGY FROM RADIOACTIVE SOURCES

G21H1/00 - Arrangements for obtaining electrical energy from radioactive sources, e.g. from radioactive isotopes {, nuclear or atomic batteries}

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NSA Number:

NSA-33-026895

Resource Type:

Patent

Resource Relation:

Patent File Date: 1974 Aug 29; Other Information: F03G7/00. Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

N52000* -Nuclear Materials & Waste Management; 051100*; *RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; AFTER-HEAT; GASES; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE