Hydro-elastic container for transporting radioactive fuel rods - incorporates compensator for maintaining rods completely immersed

摘要

A container for transporting radioactive materials, partic. radioactive fuel rods under water, comprising an outer shell ensuring biological protection, incorporates a compensator inside it. The compensator is designed to maintain the internal pressure of the container at a reasonable value during transport, whatever be the temp. reached by the water, so as to maintain the radioactive materials or the irradiated rods always completely immersed without the need of particular precautions on filling the container with water. The invention avoids the inconveniences of existing containers in which the heat transfer fluid is air or water.