# US 8,569,725 B2 · Radiation shielding method and radiation shielding device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,569,725 B2 - Document ID: US8569725B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/056,907 - Filed: 2009-09-18 - Published: 2011-06-02 - Granted: 2013-10-29 - Earliest claimed: 2008-12-26 - Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. - Applicants: Yukihide Shimazu - Inventors: Yukihide Shimazu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8569725B2 ## CPC - G21F 3/00: Shielding characterised by its physical form, e.g. granules, or shape of the material - G21F 7/068: {Remotely manipulating devices for fluids} - G21D 1/02: Arrangements of auxiliary equipment - G21F: PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR (radiation protection by pharmaceutical means A61K8/00, A61Q17/04; in cosmonautic vehicles B64G1/54; combined with a reactor G21C11/00; combined with X-ray tubes H01J35/16; combined with X-ray apparatus H05G1/02) - G21D: NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ## Abstract To include a step of installing a hollow container (1) at a predetermined portion of an object to be shielded (100), a step of feeding fluid into the container (1) via a hose (22) by a fluid feeding unit (2), and a step of transporting and filling a granular shielding material into the container (1) via the hose (22) by supplying the shielding material to the fluid by a shielding-material supply unit (3). With this arrangement, because a shielding material is fed into the container (1) together with the fluid and filled therein at a remote place from the object to be shielded (100), a worker does not need to approach the object to be shielded (100). Further, because a shielding effect is improved by the granular shielding material, an amount of radiation to the worker can be reduced easily and sufficiently. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A radiation shielding method comprising: installing a hollow container at a predetermined portion of an object to be shielded; feeding fluid into the container via a feeding hose; supplying a shielding material to the feeding hose and transporting and filling a granular shielding material into the container by the fluid; extracting the shielding material filled in the container from the container together with fluid discharged to outside of the container via a returning hose, while feeding fluid into the container via a feeding hose, in a state that the shielding material is filled in the container; and recovering the shielding material from the fluid, wherein the extracting the shielding material filled in the container from the container includes injecting the fluid, which is fed from the feeding hose to the returning hose, from an injection port formed in a tubular shaped injecting nozzle toward an inlet formed in a tubular shaped fetching member, the fetching member connected to the returning hose in the container, the inlet having a larger diameter than the injection port, and the inlet arranged so as to face the injection port. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The radiation shielding method according to claim 1, wherein at the feeding fluid into the container, liquid is used as the fluid and the liquid is filled in the container via the feeding hose. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The radiation shielding method according to claim 1, wherein the container is mounted on the object to be shielded at all times. ### Claim 4 A radiation shielding device comprising: a hollow container installed at a predetermined portion of an object to be shielded; a fluid feeding unit that feeds fluid into the container via a feeding hose; a shielding-material supply unit that supplies a granular shielding material to the feeding hose; a shielding-material extracting unit that circulates the shielding material filled in the container together with fluid discharged to outside of the container via a returning hose, while feeding fluid into the container via a feeding hose; and a shielding-material recovering unit that recovers the shielding material from the fluid, wherein the shielding-material extracting unit includes an injection nozzle having a tubular shape and an injection port that injects the fluid fed into the container, and a fetching member having a tubular shape and an inlet for fetching the shielding material together with fluid discharged from the container, which are provided in the container, and an injection port of the injection nozzle is arranged toward the inlet of the fetching member, the inlet has a larger aperture than the injection port, and the inlet is disposed so as to face the injection port. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The radiation shielding device according to claim 4, wherein the shielding-material extracting unit includes a switching unit that switches a feeding direction of fluid in a reverse flow mode of the fluid. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The radiation shielding device according to claim 4, wherein the hose for circulating the shielding material together with fluid between the shielding-material supply unit and the container is made to be transparent. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The radiation shielding device according to claim 4, wherein the hose for circulating the shielding material together with fluid between the shielding-material recovering unit and the container is made to be transparent. ### Claim 8 (depends on 4) The radiation shielding device according to claim 4, wherein water is used as the fluid, and a pellet containing tungsten is used as the shielding material.