3. Manufacturing and control techniques
3.1 Industrialization of HA waste storage containers
The components of an HA waste storage container are an unalloyed steel body fitted with ceramic pads, and a lid of the same grade of steel (figure 5 ). To assemble the storage package in a hot cell, the primary package must be inserted into the body, then the lid welded full thickness to the body.
These metallurgical techniques have been tested in demonstrators for the storage of spent UOX nuclear fuel (figure...
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