An apparatus for storing radioactive compounds with selective extraction, characterized by incorporating a rotating cylinder of lead in which are located, in a selectable way, plastic tanks, each of which contains a series of accommodations to house in turn the solid and encapsulated radioactive sources, as well as of form and size adapted to the characteristics of the aforementioned radioactive sources to which they are destined; a superior lead protection directed nothing to attenuate the dose of radiation to the permissible limits and coupled on the rotating cylinder with the appropriate clearance so as not to embarrass the game of the mobile cylinder, without prejudice still to avoid lateral radiation thanks to a peripheral; a third cylinder of lead intended in turn to lead the upper protection of the mobile cylinder; a normal tubular device to the deposits of radioactive sources in order to carry the selected deposit to the point of extraction of the radioactive compound of interest in each case or, alternatively, to load the same descent to the point of rest; a tubular conduit made in coincidence through the three overlapping lead cylinders and normal to the radioactive composite carrier device, as well as provided with stainless steel jacket and in order to guide said composite holder from bottom to top for extraction or from above below for loading, without prejudice to maintaining the irradiation dose of the same compounds below the aforementioned safe limits; an oak cap of the leaded cylinder with a view, with the corresponding plug of said tubular guide, to prevent both the lateral radiation of the radioactive compounds in the intake position and the vertical radiation in the resting position; a plate intended to maintain, with the help of columns arranged in the vortices of an ideal frame, the fixed height of the cylinder of the tanks while serving as support for the mechanical means required for the rotation of said cylinder; an internal reinforcement made up of right feet and designed to support the protection cylinder of the movable cylinder so that its own position is adjustable, both vertically and horizontally and with the aid of the appropriate screws to adjust the coincidence of the vertical guide of the composite holder; a solid disc of the base of the rotating cylinder and numbered at the same time that it has an index of centering on the bevelled edge and one and the other observable through a tilted viewfinder of the front of the apparatus with the help of the light of a light bulb of the circuit electric; and an outer covering coupled on a chassis to the purpose and formed by four side panels of steel sheet painted in the oven, and a stainless steel top panel, which, under sufficient conditions of protection, serves, among other purposes, for work station in manipulations such as loading, threading of linear and other sources, said upper panel carrying a peripheral projection that prevents the fall by sliding of any of the objects deposited on the surface thereof. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
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