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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2019
Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Timothy M. Lloyd, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert D. Quinn, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Emiliano Gonzalez Herranz, Madrid, ES;
Emmanuel Mercier, Athis Mons, FR;
David Castrillon Cabaleiro, Cantabria, ES;
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Abstract
A modular dry spent fuel canister system in which several different types of inner spent nuclear fuel canisters can be loaded into the same outer cask family. This family typically includes a storage overpack, a transfer cask, a transportation cask and support or auxiliary hardware. The various canisters can be loaded interchangeably into the different types of outer casks. The inner canisters are differentiated not by physical fuel type or dimension, but by the engineering objective or criterion that applies to the spent fuel being stored. One such objective may be for a single canister to store a large number of assemblies economically and safely. A second is a canister designed to greatly reduce the cooling time (or radioactive decay time) that must pass in order to load spent nuclear fuel for off-site storage, so as to meet the decay heat requirements and capabilities of the off-site storage system.