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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1987
Hermann Operschall, Lauf, DE;
Robert Weber, Uttenreuth, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for the wet dismantling of radioactively contaminated or activated components of nuclear reactor plants such as pressure vessels, includes optionally enclosing the component with a jacket or enclosure tube at the end of the service life of the component, the jacket or tube may be cast or molded, providing a sheathing between the component and the jacket, or between the component and a concrete shield, having a thickness sufficient to support at least part of the component after dismantling the component into individual pieces, or joining the jacket to the pressure vessel or to a bottom plate, flooding the component with water for radiation shielding, at least partly dismantling the component into individual pieces through a material-removing tooling or erosion method, and removing the individual pieces.