EP0009424B1 - Dispositif et procédé de transfert et de conditionnement dans une gaine étanche de produits nocifs - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de transfert et de conditionnement dans une gaine étanche de produits nocifs Download PDF

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EP0009424B1
EP0009424B1 EP79400583A EP79400583A EP0009424B1 EP 0009424 B1 EP0009424 B1 EP 0009424B1 EP 79400583 A EP79400583 A EP 79400583A EP 79400583 A EP79400583 A EP 79400583A EP 0009424 B1 EP0009424 B1 EP 0009424B1
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René Goutard
Raymond Levardon
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21F—PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
    • G21F7/00—Shielded cells or rooms
    • G21F7/005—Shielded passages through walls; Locks; Transferring devices between rooms
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S422/00—Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing
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  • the present invention due to the work of René GOUTARD and Raymond LEVARON of the AUTOMATISME et TECHNIQUE company, relates to a transfer and conditioning device in a sealed sheath, of contaminating products, such as radioactive products, avoiding that the necessary operating process this sheathing results in contamination of the environment.
  • the invention also relates to a method for implementing this device.
  • the contaminating products about which such problems arise may for example be radioactive products, and in particular nuclear fuels which, after their use in nuclear reactors, must be transported to a reprocessing plant. But it can also be chemically or biologically active products, the ingestion or only contact of which presents a danger even at low doses.
  • the object of the present invention is to create a device and a method making it possible to effectively solve, by simple means, the problems mentioned above, whether they are radioactive products or chemical or biologically active products.
  • the subject of the invention is a device for transferring a harmful product through an airlock secured to a sealed partition and for packaging this product in a sealed sheath, characterized in that it comprises a sleeve comprising a central recess establishing a sealed communication with respect to the environment between the airlock and said sheath, and a double-bottomed plug disposed in the recess to prevent this communication, the plug and the sleeve being designed to be securely joined together, then cut simultaneously so as to seal the airlock and said sheath separately by means of each of the plug bottoms.
  • the sleeve comprises an external groove perpendicular to its axis and the stopper comprises an internal groove perpendicular to its axis and disposed between its two bottoms, said grooves being substantially the same width and arranged normally. in the same radial plane, the external surface of the plug being capable of being made tightly integral with the internal surface of the recess formed in the plug around the entire periphery of this surface and over a distance, measured parallel to the axis of the sleeve, projecting on both sides of said grooves.
  • each of the plug bottoms comprises a gripping means arranged on the side opposite to the sheath when the plug is in place in the sleeve.
  • the sleeve is capable of being tightly connected to the sheath by one of its ends, and it comprises at its other end an external flange in which is formed a groove receiving a annular seal capable of sealingly engaging the internal wall of the airlock.
  • the sleeve may then comprise an external strip of the same diameter as the collar and placed at a certain distance from the latter, the strip being capable of coming to bear against a latching means associated with the airlock.
  • the groove formed on the sleeve is then placed between the strip and the end of the sleeve capable of being connected to the sheath.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 1 denotes a sleeve connected in a strictly sealed manner to a sheath 2.
  • the sleeve 1 and the sheath 2 are assumed to be bodies of revolution having the axis of symmetry as the x axis. -x '. It is however possible to conceive, without departing from the scope of the invention, shapes of sleeve and sheath different from those shown and which, in particular do not have symmetry of revolution.
  • FIG. 1 denotes a sleeve connected in a strictly sealed manner to a sheath 2.
  • the sleeve 1 and the sheath 2 are assumed to be bodies of revolution having the axis of symmetry as the x axis. -x '. It is however possible to conceive, without departing from the scope of the invention, shapes of sleeve and sheath different from those shown and which, in particular do not have symmetry of revolution.
  • the wall of the sealed sheath 2 has only been represented by a solid continuous line, because this sheath, intended to receive the contaminating products to be transferred, is not strictly speaking part of the device according to the invention and n 'is discussed in what follows that due to its connection, strictly sealed, with the sleeve 1 forming, meanwhile, part of this device.
  • the sleeve 1 At its open end, opposite the sheath 2, the sleeve 1 has a flange 3, projecting radially outward perpendicularly to the axis xx 'and in which is formed a groove 4 to receive a seal 5. Between the flange 3 and the sheath 2, the sleeve 1 has an external strip 6, perpendicular to the axis xx 'and of the same external diameter as the flange 3. The role of this strip 6 is, as will be seen more far, to allow, in cooperation with the collar 3, the guide of the sleeve 1 in a cylindrical airlock.
  • the external face of the wall of the sleeve 1 has a groove 7, of determined depth, perpendicular to the axis xx 'of the sleeve.
  • the internal surface of the sleeve parallel to the axis x-x ' is smooth, cylindrical, and, in the case of the embodiment shown, its cross section is circular.
  • the device according to the invention comprises a plug 8 with double bottom 8 'and 8 ", capable of sliding with a small clearance inside the sleeve 1 along the axis xx' of the sleeve which constitutes also the axis of this plug.
  • the plug 8 has, on the internal face of its wall parallel to the axis xx', a groove 9, perpendicular to the axis xx 'and of determined depth, the width of which is preferably of the same order as that of the external groove 7 of the sleeve 1.
  • the plug 8 further comprises on each of its bottoms 8 'and 8 "respectively a gripping means 10', 10" projecting from the bottom side 8 'and 8 "opposite the sheath 2 when the plug 8 is in place in the sleeve 1.
  • the external peripheral surface of the plug 8, cylindrical and parallel to the axis x-x ', is smooth, and it is of a nature that, under conditions which will be described later, it can be rendered in all points integral, in a strictly sealed manner with the smooth internal face of the sleeve 1, the sealed connection zone thus obtained, measured in the direction of the axis x-x ', extending on either side of the grooves 7 and 9 made in the sleeve 1 and the plug 8.
  • FIGS. 3 to 12 show how the device which has just been described can be used to transfer contaminating products from a first contaminated cell, referenced in the figures by I, and to which the service personnel do not normally have access, and a second uncontaminated cell II, to which the service personnel have access.
  • FIGS. 3 to 4 the cell II is located below the cell I and they are separated from each other by a sealed floor 11.
  • an airlock 12 ensures communication between cell and cell II.
  • the inner end of this airlock is sealed by an assembly formed by the sealed assembly of the upper parts of a sleeve 1 and of a plug 8, identical to those described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, and which was abandoned in this lower end of the airlock 12 during a previous operation of transferring a load of contaminating products from cell I into cell II.
  • This assembly is held in the airlock 12 by a latching means 14 cooperating with the strip 6 of the sleeve 1.
  • this assembly is guided in the airlock 12 on the one hand by the strip 6 of the sleeve 1 and on the other hand by the flange 3 of this same sleeve, the seal 5 placed in the groove 4 of this flange ensuring on the other hand the seal between this flange and the internal wall of the airlock 12, therefore the seal between the cells I and II (FIG. 3).
  • the sheath 2 is raised to introduce into the airlock 12 the upper end of the sleeve 1.
  • the progressively withdrawn assembly consisting of another sleeve 1 and another plug 8 and previously abandoned in the airlock 12.
  • This removal takes place by means of a handling means 15, not described in more detail since it is not part of the invention, and which suffices to say that it operates inside the contaminated cell I while being remotely controlled from the uncontaminated cell II.
  • This handling means engages with the gripping means 10 "fixed on the upper part of the plug 8 previously abandoned in the airlock 12.
  • the next step consists in removing from the new sleeve 1, which has just been introduced into the airlock 12, the new plug 8, in making it pass through the airlock 12, then in spreading it laterally in cell I to release the entrance to the airlock. These maneuvers are also carried out using the handling means 15 in engagement with the gripping means 10 "of the new plug 1 (FIG. 7).
  • a container 16 is brought into the contaminated cell I, in which the load of contaminating products to be transferred is located, above the airlock 12, then by passing it through this airlock and through the sleeve 1, it is deposited in the sheath 2.
  • the handling means 15 is engaged with a gripping means placed at the upper part of the container 16 (FIG. 8).
  • the plug 8 is then replaced in the sleeve 1 while maintaining it, by the handling means 15, in a position where the grooves 7 and 9 of the sleeve 1 and of the plug 8 are coincidental. In this position, and with the aid of a means, diagrammatically marked 17 in FIG. 20, the external surface of the plug is made at all points, at a height exceeding on either side of the grooves 7 and 9 8 and the internal surface of the sleeve 1, so as to create between these surfaces, over the entire area considered, an absolute seal.
  • the last step consists, after replacing the lifting means 13 under the sheath 2, to cut off the assembly formed by the sleeve 1 and the plug 8 of which it is integral, at the height of the grooves 7 and 9 (fig. 11) .
  • the means used to make the internal surface of the sleeve 1 and the external surface of the plug 8 rigidly sealed at all points, vary according to the case.
  • the means used is brazing.
  • the internal wall of the sleeve 1 as well as the external wall of the plug 8 are each hot coated with a homogeneous layer of brazing alloy adhering to these surfaces. Then these layers are corrected so as to allow the introduction of the plug 8 into the sleeve 1 with little play.
  • the internal surface of the layer of brazing alloy deposited on the sleeve with the external surface of the brazing alloy layer deposited on the plug when the latter occupies the location shown in FIG.
  • the brazing alloy is caused to melt by causing eddy currents to flow inside this alloy by creating a high frequency magnetic field using a loop located outside the sleeve 1. After the high frequency field has been interrupted , the brazing alloy solidifies again, producing an absolutely tight connection between the sleeve and the plug.
  • a solution using a sleeve 1, a sheath 2 and a plug 8 made of steel, as well as sealing by brazing is particularly suitable for transferring radioactive products whose temperature can be relatively high.
  • the plug 8 and possibly the sheath 2 are made of non-metallic materials, such as for example plastic, other means such as bonding, ultrasonic welding, etc. can be applied to obtain the tight connection at all points between the sleeve 1 and the plug 8.
  • the sectioning at the level of the grooves 7 and 9 of the integral assembly constituted by the sleeve 1 and the sheath 2 on the one hand, with the plug 8 on the other hand, can be carried out by any suitable means providing a cutting plane clean and smooth, for example by cutting wheels 18 as has been shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 2 and 11. This cutting-off means is not part of the invention.
  • the device and the method according to the invention make it possible, as we have just seen, to transfer contaminating products from a contaminated cell 1 into an uncontaminated cell tt without contamination of the transferred products or contamination of cell I can spread outside this cell.
  • possible contamination is located on a circumference in the cutting plane, at the location of the connection interface between the sleeve 1 and the plug 8 It is then easy to eliminate, by conventional decontamination means and well known per se, this slight possible contamination, which is strictly superficial.
  • the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiments to which the description refers.
  • the relative arrangement of the sheath and of the sleeve, or else the relative arrangements of cells I and II may vary, as well as the shapes of the sheath, of the sleeve and of the plug, without thereby departing from the scope of the invention. , as defined by the claims.

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EP79400583A 1978-08-25 1979-08-21 Dispositif et procédé de transfert et de conditionnement dans une gaine étanche de produits nocifs Expired EP0009424B1 (fr)

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