Cutting – Other than completely through work thickness or through work... – Combined types of cutting
Patent
1976-07-29
1981-10-20
Kyle, Deborah L.
Cutting
Other than completely through work thickness or through work...
Combined types of cutting
83187, 83487, 83925R, 422903, G21C 1932, B26D 1100
Patent
active
042954010
ABSTRACT:
Irradiated tubular rectangular fuel channels from a nuclear reactor are temporarily stored under water. In order to dispose of these highly radioactive channels and to ship them to permanent burial grounds, the channels must be placed in specially designed shipping casks under water. In order to reduce the volume of the channel so as to economize on the use of the casks, the channels are cut along their longitudinal edges to form four plates which are then nested before being placed in the storage casks, thereby greatly increasing the number of channels which may be stored in each cask. The cutting is done under water by an apparatus having four roller cutters which are positioned along the outside of the four edges or corners of a channel and are moved longitudinally down the channel edges in a reciprocating motion until the four side plates of the channel are severed.
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patent: 3802996 (1974-04-01), Jones
Stoller, S. M. et al., Eds., Reactor Handbook, vol. II, Fuel Reprocessing, Interscience Publishers, Inc., N.Y. 1961, pp. 23-48.
Kyle Deborah L.
NUS Corporation
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