Packaging for ocean disposal of low-level radioactive waste mate

Details Packaging for ocean disposal of low-level radioactive waste mate Packaging for ocean disposal of low-level radioactive waste mate

1980-07-14

1983-03-22

Hunt, Brooks H.

Compositions

Radioactive compositions

Nuclear reactor fuel

206521, 220 23R, G21F 924

Patent

active

043775098

ABSTRACT:
A packaging system for storage of containers of low-level radioactive waste consisting of a concrete shell structure that houses the containers and a dry filler material that surrounds them. Void volume in the filler material is saturated with water, and during free-fall descent to the seafloor, a pressure compensation means equalizes pressures inside and outside the packaging structure and forces the filler material into intimate contact about the drums; on the seafloor, the filler material hardens to produce a highly secure barrier to any leaking of radioactive waste.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3760753 (1973-09-01), Mertens
patent: 4222889 (1980-09-01), Uerpmann
patent: 4257912 (1981-03-01), Fleischer et al.
Nucleonics, "Nuclear Engineering"; Ocean Disposal of Radioactive Waste, D 1954.

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