Container for sending a tire having a front plug, designed, in particular, to the installations of sending a tire in nuclear reactors.

摘要

972,798. Nuclear reactors. EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM). Sept. 5, 1963 [Sept.13, 1962], No. 35187/63. Heading G6C. A pneumatic tube container, for use in irradiating samples in a nuclear reactor, comprises a frontal closure and a weighted element freely mounted in the container behind the sample material within the container, the element being adapted to open the closure and expel the sample material upon impact of the container against an abutment at its point of arrival. In the arrangement shown a cylindrical container 1 is closed at one end of a metal membrane 4 and at the other end contains a weighted element 10 in the form of a piston attached to a piston rod 10a which extends through the end of the container. Tablets 6 of fissile material are supported by a cage member 7 with intervening spacer rings 8, and the free space is filled with an organic liquid which is to be iradiated. A punch ring 12 abuts the cage 7 and when the container is stopped at its arrival point after irradiation in a reactor, the inertia of the weight 10 causes the membrane 4 to be broken by the punch ring 12 and the contents of the container to be ejected. In alternative arrangements the closure member may be a lid opened by the piston through a lever or a rack and pinion, or it may be rigidly attached to the piston to form a kind of drawer. The material to be irradiated may be in powder, gas, or solid form.