Hazardous material canister systems and methods
AssigneeDeep Isolation, Inc.
InventorRichard A. Muller
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Abstract
Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
Claims20
A method of sealing a nuclear waste canister, comprising:
- inserting nuclear waste into an open volume of a housing of a nuclear waste canister;
- preparing at least one of an edge of an open end of the housing or an edge of a lid sized to fit on the open end of the housing;
- attaching the edge of the open end of the housing to the edge of the lid by spin welding the lid onto the housing;
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- enclosing the open volume of the housing to seal the nuclear waste within the nuclear waste canister.
A system for sealing a nuclear waste canister, comprising:
- a nuclear waste canister that comprises:
- a housing that defines an open volume sized to enclose nuclear waste, and
- a lid sized to fit on an open end of the housing, the open end comprising an edge that mirrors an edge of the lid;
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- a spin welding system configured to attach the edge of the open end of the housing to the edge of the lid by spin welding the lid onto the housing to enclose the open volume of the housing with the lid to seal the nuclear waste within the nuclear waste canister.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.