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:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4005148
- Patent Number(s):
- 3911684
- Assignee:
- to U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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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
- 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
Citation Formats
Busey, H M. Method for utilizing decay heat from radioactive nuclear wastes. United States: N. p., 1974.
Web.
Busey, H M. Method for utilizing decay heat from radioactive nuclear wastes. United States.
Busey, H M. Mon .
"Method for utilizing decay heat from radioactive nuclear wastes". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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