Transnuclear, Inc.

Tn International

Robert L Grubb

Jayant Rajabhau Bondre

Lise Wattez

Peter Shih

Ioan Florea

Marlin L Stoltz

A long-term storage facility has an array of storage packages receiving respective cases containing radioactive materials. Each storage package has a lateral body delimiting a housing for receiving a case, the package body being closed at its top end and at its low end respectively by a removable head cover, and by a package base. The package base has a removable base cover, allowing insertion of the case via the low end of the body. The packages can be moved inside the facility by a mechanical lift. The facility includes a pivoting frame for swinging a storage package from a horizontal orientation in which the storage package is loaded to a vertical position in which the storage package is stored.

Long-term storage site for radioactive materials

A partition support assembly for a canister assembly generally includes at least one inner support ring configured to support one or more partitions for dividing the interior of the canister assembly for packaging contents to be received within the canister assembly, wherein the one or more partitions are configurable in a plurality of packaging orientations. A canister assembly and a method for containing packaging contents are also provided.

Partition support and canister assemblies for packaging contents and methods of containing same

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Ellicott City, MD, United States of America

Robert L Grubb