An apparatus for drying spent ion-exchange resins comprising a sealed cylindrical body, in upper part of which a blow-off choke is installed and a first nozzle to feed spent ion-exchange resins inside the sealed cylindrical body is installed, in a bottom part of the sealed cylindrical body, a second nozzle is installed to retrieve spent ion-exchange resins, the bottom part of the sealed cylindrical body further includes an external heater and a drive shaft that is installed in alignment inside the sealed cylindrical body for rotation, the drive shaft is equipped with an anchor mixer that is rigidly fixed on the drive shaft, the anchor mixer includes mixer blades having a shape conforming to an internal service of the bottom part of the sealed cylindrical body and a side part of the sealed cylindrical body, wherein an upper part of the drive shaft comprises one-way screw windings and a lower part of the drive shaft comprises one-way screw windings, the lower part of the drive shaft with one-way screw windings are aligned inside the second nozzle retrieve the dried ion-exchange resins, and wherein the second nozzle forms part of a water draining device.