Patents Assigned to E.N.I.-Electrische Nijverheids-Installaties
  • Method for removal of adhering sodium from and storage of irradiated nuclear fuel elements
    Patent number: 3984345
    Abstract: There is described a method for sodium-deactivating and/or stocking irradiated nuclear fuel elements, said elements being contacted with a fluid, in which use is made as fluid, of a molten salt mixture which is uncorrosive for the element stainless steels, inert relative to uranium and plutonium oxides by the deactivating temperature and reactive with sodium metal without producing a detonating gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignees: Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucleaire, C.E.N., E.N.I.-Electrische Nijverheids-Installaties, Belgonucleaire
    Inventors: Paul Raymond Heylen, Jean Van Impe, Henri Lecerf