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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1989
Norbert Hardt, Hanover, DE;
Hakan Sterner, Hanover, DE;
Gerhard Wetzka, Veitshochheim, DE;
Burkart Schulte, Minden, DE;
Abstract
The invention is directed to an arrangement for transferring irradiated f rods from a trough-shaped receptacle into a canister intended for terminal storage. The canister is docked at a pass-through opening formed in a partition wall of a nuclear facility. The arrangement includes a trough-shaped insert which is movable out of the terminal storage canister while empty and through the pass-through opening into the trough-shaped receptacle whereat it is filled with the irradiated fuel rods and then returned back through the opening and into the terminal storage canister. In this way, and with little effort, a transfer of fuel rods is achieved without components disposed between the receptacle and canister becoming contaminated by radioactive particles.