Thermal-Conduction Element for Improving the Manufacture of a Package for Transporting and/or Storing Radioactive Materials

摘要

The invention relates to a thermal conduction element (20) for a package for transporting and/or storing radioactive materials, comprising:an internal part (30) intended to be in contact with a lateral body (14) of the package;an external part (34) intended to form a portion of an external envelope (24) of said package, holding radiological protection means (22);an intermediate part (32) arranged between the internal and external parts, the internal, external and intermediate parts being produced from copper and one of the alloys thereof.;According to the invention, the external part (34) is equipped, at each of its two opposite ends, with an area (36) for connection by welding to another thermal conduction element (20), each connection area (36) being produced from steel.