SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY DERIVED FROM A SPENT FUEL CASK
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United States of America Patent
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Issued Date -
Sep 18, 2014
app pub date -
Mar 13, 2013
filing date -
Mar 13, 2013
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Abandoned
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Abstract
Apparatus for extracting useful electric or mechanical power in significant quantities from the decay heat that is produced within spent nuclear fuel casks. The power is used for either powering an active forced air heat removal system for the nuclear casks, thereby increasing the thermal capacity of the casks, or for emergency nuclear plant power in the event of a station blackout. Thermoelectric generators or other heat engines are employed using the thermal gradient that exists between the spent nuclear fuel and the environment surrounding the cask's components housing the nuclear fuel to produce the power.
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