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公开(公告)号：US11517949B2
公开(公告)日：2022-12-06
申请号：US17519055
申请日：2021-11-04
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Open pit mine (OPM) structures are modified or built new for use in disposing of low-level radioactive/nuclear waste (LLW). A drainage system is added to the OPM to drain water, such as, but not limited to, rain water, out of a volume of the OPM and to a particular geologic zone located far below the OPM that is isolated away from the local water table. Cells are formed within the volume of the OPM that are configured to receive the LLW. Cells are added to the OPM from a bottom towards a top of the OPM. Void spaces around the LLW materials within the cells are filled in with a protective-medium to mitigate against radionuclide migration away from the LLW materials within the cells. The protective-medium may be a blend of carbon nanotubes and a foam cement slurry. The carbon nanotubes may be made from reacting ethylene with vermiculite.
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公开(公告)号：US11508490B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-22
申请号：US17159819
申请日：2021-01-27
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Dangerous, toxic, and/or radioactive volatiles are produced from nuclear fission, nuclear decay, and/or as a byproduct from vitrification of radioactive wastes. Such volatiles are treated during and after vitrification of the radioactive waste, to be converted into fixed-chemicals, that are retained in, on, and/or proximate to a cold-cap located vertically above vitrified melt. The cold-cap may have one or more volatile fixing additives (VFAs) for retaining the fixed-chemicals. The VFAs are located in and/or the cold-cap. The vitrification may occur within at least one human-made cavern. The human-made cavern may be located within a deep geologic rock formation. The deep geologic rock formation may be located at least 2,000 feet below a terrestrial surface of the Earth. The human-made cavern may be formed by first drilling a wellbore from the terrestrial surface to the deep geologic rock formation and then underreaming the wellbore into the deep geologic rock formation.
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公开(公告)号：US11087896B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-10
申请号：US16709701
申请日：2019-12-10
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Embodiments of the present invention center around systems and methods for long-term disposal of high-level nuclear waste that is to be placed inside of particular waste-capsules that are in turn to be placed into wellbores that are located in deep-geologic-formations. Mostly or fully intact spent nuclear fuel rod assemblies may be internally packed in the waste-capsules. A given waste-capsule may include a protective-medium around the contained nuclear waste, a corrosion protective layer around the protective-medium, and a neutron absorbing and/or slowdown layer around the corrosion protective layer. The protective-medium may be in the form of a mold or injected into the waste-capsule. The protective-medium may shield against gamma radiation and protect the waste-capsule from degradation. Further, a transporter is described for surface transportion of loaded nuclear waste-capsules so that the loaded nuclear waste-capsules may be safely transported to a drilling-rig site for insertion into the wellbore.
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公开(公告)号：US11085270B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-10
申请号：US16815402
申请日：2020-03-11
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： In-situ vitrification of hazardous waste occurs within human-made caverns. The human-made caverns may be located at distal (terminal) ends of substantially vertical wellbores and the human-made caverns may be located within deep geological rock formations, that are located at least two thousand feet below the Earth's surface. The hazardous waste that is vitrified into glass within such human-made caverns may be radioactive. The vitrification within a given human-made cavern is accomplished by at least one heater that operates according to a predetermined heating and cooling profile. During vitrification the heater may be reciprocated up and down to introduce currents into the waste liquid for uniform temperature dispersion. The heater may be removable, reusable, single use, and/or disposable. Cold caps and/or insulating blankets may be used over a given layer of vitrified waste product within the given human-made cavern. Heater weights, mixing vanes, and/or downhole sealing packer may also be used.
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公开(公告)号：US11024436B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-01
申请号：US16986024
申请日：2020-08-05
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Waste capsules for disposal of radioactive materials, including weapons grade plutonium, are made entirely from rock, such as, but not limited to, granite; wherein a cap of such a waste capsule is seamlessly rock welded to a lower body portion of the given waste capsule, to form the given waste capsule, with the radioactive materials inside of a cavity of that waste capsule. The weld region is homogenous with both the cap and the lower body portion. A cooling system may be used during or after rock welding. The sealed and rock welded waste capsule, with the internal radioactive materials, is then loaded into a wellbore system that extends into a deep geological rock repository, thousands of feet below the Earth's surface, such that the waste capsule comes to rest in a wellbore located within the deep geological rock repository. The waste capsule may include insulating material in the cavity.
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公开(公告)号：US10518302B2
公开(公告)日：2019-12-31
申请号：US16176374
申请日：2018-10-31
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Method, apparatus and system for location evaluation and selection of a site, capable of effectively implementing a deep geologic repository for the disposal and storage of high-level nuclear waste and evaluating the waste location by scientific and technical analysis incorporating human and social interaction are provided. In one aspect, engineering, drilling, geological, geographic, and demographic data associated with a plurality of prospective implementation locations and human knowledge and physical infrastructure may be utilized in determining most desirable implementation surface drilling operations.
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公开(公告)号：US10427191B2
公开(公告)日：2019-10-01
申请号：US15480504
申请日：2017-04-06
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： Systems and methods for long term disposal of high level nuclear waste in deep geologic formations are described. Such systems and method may include largely intact spent nuclear fuel rods in a disassembled form that may be placed into waste-capsules (e.g., carrier tubes); which may then be placed into various well boreholes. Example embodiments may provide waste-capsules capable of containing and disposing of waste generated from spent nuclear fuel, including means for harvesting the nuclear waste from cooling pools and operationally processing the waste fuel assemblies for inclusion in the waste-capsules with various engineered barriers; along with storage in horizontal well boreholes drilled into closed deep geologic formations.
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公开(公告)号：US20150259942A1
公开(公告)日：2015-09-17
申请号：US13999606
申请日：2014-03-13
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： A shell structure construction method utilizing a plurality of anchored and laterally connected pre-cast reinforced concrete shells, each of these subject shells has a specific shape in which the shell walls are defined by an inverted catenary shape or alternatively by other efficient geometric shapes. An improved joint support mechanic includes a combination of fastener elements and a plurality of post tensioned cable systems disposed between and connecting contiguous shell elements. This construction method is suitable for manufacturing and implementing severe storm shelters used during tornadoes and other severe weather events.
摘要翻译： 利用多个锚固和横向连接的预制钢筋混凝土壳体的壳结构施工方法，这些对象壳体中的每一个具有特定形状，其中壳壁由倒置的悬链线形状或者通过其它有效的几何形状限定。 改进的关节支撑机构包括紧固件元件和设置在连接的连接壳体元件之间并连接相邻的壳元件的多个后张紧的缆索系统的组合。 这种施工方法适用于制造和实施在龙卷风和其他恶劣天气事件中使用的严重防暴棚。
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公开(公告)号：US08933289B2
公开(公告)日：2015-01-13
申请号：US12660330
申请日：2010-02-25
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
IPC分类号： G21F9/24
摘要： A method of disposing nuclear waste in underground rock formations is presented. The method includes the steps of selecting a land area having a rock formation positioned there-below of a depth able to prevent radioactive material placed therein from reaching the surface and drilling a vertical wellbore from the surface, to a depth ranging between 5,000 feet and 25,000 feet, into the underground rock formation or repository. A plurality of horizontal laterals or horizontal wellbores, ranging in length from 500 feet to 40,000 feet, are drilled from the vertical wellbore into the underground rock formation or repository. Nuclear waste to be stored within these laterals is encapsulated in a special waste canister and these nuclear waste canisters are positioned within the horizontal laterals wherein they are sealed to prevent loss and leakage. Means are also provided by which these canisters are adapted to allow retrievability of the canisters from the wellbore at a later date and to return the waste to the surface for use after retrieval.
摘要翻译： 介绍了在地下岩层中处置核废料的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤：选择具有定位在其下方的岩层的土地区域，其深度可以防止放置在其中的放射性材料到达表面并从表面钻出垂直井筒，深度在5,000至25,000之间 脚，进入地下岩层或储存库。 从垂直井眼钻入多个水平侧向或长度为500英尺至40,000英尺的水平井筒进入地下岩层或储存库。 要储存在这些侧壁内的核废料被封装在特殊的废料罐中，这些核废料罐位于水平侧壁内，其中它们被密封以防止损失和泄漏。 还提供了这样的装置，其适于允许在稍后的时间从罐体获取罐的可检测性，并且将废物返回到表面以便在检索之后使用。
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公开(公告)号：US20100234663A1
公开(公告)日：2010-09-16
申请号：US12660330
申请日：2010-02-25
申请人： Henry Crichlow
发明人： Henry Crichlow
摘要： A method of disposing nuclear waste in underground rock formations is presented. The method includes the steps of selecting a land area having a rock formation positioned there-below of a depth able to prevent radioactive material placed therein from reaching the surface and drilling a vertical wellbore from the surface into the underground rock formation or repository. A plurality of horizontal laterals or horizontal wellbores is drilled from the vertical wellbore into the underground rock formation or repository. Nuclear waste to be stored within these laterals is encapsulated in a special waste canister and these nuclear waste canisters are positioned within the horizontal laterals wherein they are sealed to prevent loss and leakage. Means are also provided by which these canisters are adapted to allow retrievability of the canisters from the wellbore at a later date and to return the waste to the surface for use after retrieval.
摘要翻译： 介绍了在地下岩层中处置核废料的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤：选择具有位于其下方的岩层的土地区域，其深度可以防止放置在其中的放射性材料到达表面并且从表面钻入垂直井眼进入地下岩层或储存库。 多个水平侧面或水平井眼从垂直井眼钻进地下岩层或储存库。 要储存在这些侧壁内的核废料被封装在特殊的废料罐中，这些核废料罐位于水平侧壁内，其中它们被密封以防止损失和泄漏。 还提供了这样的装置，其适于允许在稍后的时间从罐体获取罐的可检测性，并且将废物返回到表面以便在检索之后使用。
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