Compositions – Radioactive compositions – Nuclear reactor fuel
Patent
1987-08-07
1989-06-27
Locker, Howard J.
Compositions
Radioactive compositions
Nuclear reactor fuel
2505061, 2505071, 2505151, 405 55, 405128, 405129, 405272, 405283, 405284, 405288, G21F 912, G21F 924, G21F 500, B09B 100
Patent
active
048427748
ABSTRACT:
An improved waste disposal site for the above-ground disposal of low-level nuclear waste as disclosed herein. The disposal site is formed from at least three individual waste-containing tumuli, wherein each tumuli includes a central raised portion bordered by a sloping side portion. Two of the tumuli are constructed at ground level with adjoining side portions, and a third above-ground tumulus is constructed over the mutually adjoining side portions of the ground-level tumuli. Both the floor and the roof of each tumulus includes a layer of water-shedding material such as compacted clay, and the clay layer in the roofs of the two ground-level tumuli form the compacted clay layer of the floor of the third above-ground tumulus. Each tumulus further includes a shield wall, preferably formed from a solid array of low-level handleable nuclear wate packages. The provision of such a shield wall protects workers from potentially harmful radiation when higher-level, non-handleable packages of nuclear waste are stacked in the center of the tumulus.
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Locker Howard J.
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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