US 12,482,577 B2
Apparatus and method
Ian Crabbe, Barnsley (GB)
Assigned to LEAD TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Barnsley (GB)
Appl. No. 17/440,492
Filed by Lead Technologies Limited, Barnsley (GB)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/GB2020/050952
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/212693, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1905321 (GB), filed on Apr. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0181040 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G21F 9/00 (2006.01); G21F 9/30 (2006.01)
CPC G21F 9/004 (2013.01) [G21F 9/308 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for removing radioactive contamination, at least in part, from a first article comprising a metal, the apparatus comprising: a heated first vessel for melting the metal, at least in part, therein, thereby providing a melt therefrom; a casting means for forming a second article from the melt, wherein the casting means comprises a rotatable roller arrangeable to contact the melt to thereby form thereon the second article and a guide arranged to remove the second article from the roller; a first radiation detector, arranged to detect a first fraction of the radioactive contamination, if present, in a first part of a set of parts of the second article, and a cutter arrangeable to excise the first part of the second article therefrom.