Container comprising a forged steel body of non-circular cross-section for nuclear fuel assemblies
AssigneeTransnucleaire
InventorsYves Brachet, Bernard Kirchner
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Abstract
A container for nuclear fuel assemblies comprises a thick cylindrical body of forged steel which delimits an inner cavity for housing said assemblies, said cavity being able to be hermetically sealed at its two ends by plugs which are also formed of metal, characterized in that the cross section of the cylindrical body is non-circular. The outer wall usually comprising flat surfaces which are parallel to the flat face of crescent-shaped sections fixed to its inner wall, providing the cross section with the shape of a square or rectangle with rounded corners, for example.
Claims7
A container for a nuclear fuel assembly, said container consisting essentially of a thick cylindrical body of forged steel having a thickness sufficient to shield the nuclear fuel assembly and defining a cavity therein for housing the assembly, said cavity being hermetically sealable at each end thereof by a metal plug,
- said body having a transverse cross section which is non-circular.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.