Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting – deodorizing – preser – Chemical reactor – For radioactive reactant or product
Patent
1982-08-10
1985-02-05
Kyle, Deborah L.
Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preser
Chemical reactor
For radioactive reactant or product
252630, 423248, 423644, 422119, G21F 902
Patent
active
044977751
ABSTRACT:
An improved method and apparatus for storing isotopes of hydrogen (especially tritium) are provided. The hydrogen gas(es) is (are) stored as hydrides of material (for example uranium) within boreholes in a block of copper. The mass of the block is critically important to the operation, as is the selection of copper, because no cooling pipes are used. Because no cooling pipes are used, there can be no failure due to cooling pipes. And because copper is used instead of stainless steel, a significantly higher temperature can be reached before the eutectic formation of uranium with copper occurs, (the eutectic of uranium with the iron in stainless steel forming at a significantly lower temperature).
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Singleton et al., "Traps for Scavenging Hydrogen Isotopes", Proc. 3rd Topical Mtg. on Tech. of controlled Fusion, vol. 2, May 9-11, 1978, Santa fe, New Mexico, pp. 706-713.
Bergstroem et al., "The Manufacturing Method for Copper Capsules Used for Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel" as abstracted in Chem. Abstracts, vol. 91 (1979) #128508t.
Noyes, "Shipping Cask for Fast Reactor Fuel Elements" LA-5526-MS, Mar. 1974.
Cullingford et al., "A Hydrogen Storage Bed Design for Tritium Systems Test Assembly", Met.-Hydrogen Syst., Proc. Miami Int. Symp. 1981, pp. 601-617.
Hansen et al., Constitution of Binary Alloys, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Ed. (1958) pp. 647-648.
Elliott, Constitution of Binary Alloys, First Supplement McGraw-Hill (1965) p. 877.
Cullingford Hatice S.
McMullen John W.
Sherman Robert H.
Wheeler Michael G.
Eklund William A.
Gaetjens Paul D.
Kyle Deborah L.
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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