Molded body for embedding radioactive waste and process for its production

US4560502A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nukem, LLC · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Gerhard Hackstein · Hanau, DE
• Milan Hrovat · Rodenbach, DE
• Thomas Schmidt-Hansberg · Frankfurt, DE
• Lothar Rachor
• Hans Huschka

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 9, 1982
• Grant date: Dec 24, 1985
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G21F9/36
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For the longtime fixation of radioactive and toxic waste there are used molded bodies made of graphite with nickel sulfide as a binding agent. The molded bodies show especially good properties if the nickel sulfide is in the form of Ni.sub.3 S.sub.2.