Global Patent Index - EP 0160122 B1

EP 0160122 B1 19890201 - TEMPORARY UNDERGROUND DEPOSITORY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS AND FOR VITRIFIED NUCLEAR WASTE

Title (en)

TEMPORARY UNDERGROUND DEPOSITORY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS AND FOR VITRIFIED NUCLEAR WASTE

Publication

EP 0160122 B1 19890201 (DE)

Application

EP 84113232 A 19841102

Priority

DE 3340101 A 19831105

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0160122A1] 1. Underground interim store for spent nuclear reactor fuel elements and for vitrified radioactive waste, with storage buildings arranged in a cavern, in which buildings are provided cooled storage modules or storage regions for accommodating the fuel elements and the vitrified radioactive waste, characterised in that the cavern (8, 10) has, in cross-section, the form of a vertical ellipse with an upright major axis and presents a farreaching re-arrangement of the rock burden or loads and also an activated rock-supporting ring.

IPC 1-7

G21F 9/34

IPC 8 full level

G21C 19/06 (2006.01); E02D 29/045 (2006.01); E02D 31/00 (2006.01); E04H 5/02 (2006.01); G21F 9/24 (2006.01); G21F 9/34 (2006.01); G21F 9/36 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

E02D 31/00 (2013.01); G21F 9/34 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0160122 A1 19851106; EP 0160122 B1 19890201; AT E40612 T1 19890215; BR 8405607 A 19850910; DE 3340101 A1 19850523; DE 3476602 D1 19890309; JP S60114794 A 19850621

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 84113232 A 19841102; AT 84113232 T 19841102; BR 8405607 A 19841101; DE 3340101 A 19831105; DE 3476602 T 19841102; JP 23146784 A 19841105