公开(公告)号：US4441242A

公开(公告)日：1984-04-10

申请号：US268311

申请日：1981-05-29

申请人： Michael G. Hicken ,  Fred Kirschensteiner ,  Duane A. True ,  Alexander Taleff

发明人： Michael G. Hicken ,  Fred Kirschensteiner ,  Duane A. True ,  Alexander Taleff

IPC分类号： G21C19/06 ,  G21C19/32 ,  G21C19/34 ,  B23P19/00

CPC分类号： G21C19/34 ,  G21C19/06 ,  G21C19/32 ,  Y10T29/49817 ,  Y10T29/49819 ,  Y10T29/531

摘要： The spent fuel consolidation system provides method and apparatus for remotely vertically and horizontally compacting an array of spent fuel rods while the fuel rods remain submerged in a coolant. The invention comprises a row ordering section for rearranging the configuration of the fuel rods, horizontal consolidation section for horizontally compacting several rows of fuel rods, and a vertical consolidation section for vertically compacting several rows of horizontally compacted fuel rods. The system is capable of compacting the fuel rods from a given fuel assembly to about one half of the volume originally occupied by such fuel rods in the fuel assembly thereby providing greater storage capacity for a given volume of spent fuel storage.

摘要翻译： 废燃料固结系统提供了在燃料棒保持浸没在冷却剂中的情况下远程垂直和水平地压缩乏燃料棒阵列的方法和装置。 本发明包括用于重排燃料棒的结构的行排列部分，用于水平压实几排燃料棒的水平固结部分和用于垂直压实几排水平压实的燃料棒的垂直固结部分。 该系统能够将燃料棒从给定的燃料组件压实到燃料组件中原来由这种燃料棒占据的体积的大约一半，从而为给定体积的乏燃料储存提供更大的储存能力。