Air-cooled shipping container for nuclear fuel elements

• US 3,111,586 A
• Filed: 08/25/1961
• Issued: 11/19/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alfred N. Rogers
• Original Assignee: Alfred N. Rogers
• Inventors: Rogers, Alfred N.
• Application Number:
  US04/133,994
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• US Class Current: 250/507.1
• CPC Class Codes: G21F 5/008 Containers for fuel elements
• CPC Class Codes: G21F 5/10 Heat-removal systems, e.g. using circulating fluid or cooling fins

Claims

1. AN UPRIGHT SHIPPING CONTAINER FOR NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS, COMPRISING A HOLLOW OUTER MEMBER, AN INNER MEMBER EXTENDING THROUGH SAID HOLLOW MEMBER IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP THERETO, A BOTTOM PORTION SECURED TO SAID MEMBERS AND HAVING AIR INLET PASSAGES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, A REMOVABLE TOP PORTION SECURED AT LEAST TO ONE OF SAID MEMBERS AND HAVING AIR OUTLET PASSAGES THEREIN, WALL MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID SPACED OUTER AND INNER MEMBERS AND COOPERATING WITH SAID OUTER MEMBER TO FORM A CHAMBER THEREWITH FOR RECEIVING SAID FUEL ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR SEALING SAID CHAMBER TO PREVENT THE ESCAPE OF PARTICULATE MATTER THEREFROM, SAID WALL MEANS BEING SPACED FROM SAID INNER MEMBER SO AS TO FORM A COOLING CHANNEL THEREWITH COMMUNICATING WITH SAID INLET AND OUTLET PASSAGES FOR AIR CIRCULATION THERETHROUGH, AND SHIELDING MATERIAL IN SAID OUTER AND INNER MEMBERS AND TOP AND BOTTOM PORTIONS POSITIONED TO PREVENT DIRECT RADIATION FROM ANY ONE OF SAID FUEL ELEMENTS THROUGH SAID MEMBERS AND PORTIONS AND THEIR PASSAGES TO AREAS OUTSIDE SAID CASK.