Mario De Bacci was a leading nuclear engineer at the European Committee in Brussels, Belgium, and the Nuclear Power Advisor for state leaders, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, and Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Unites States. Count De Bacci appeared on TV together with the Presidents in 1980.
Mario De Bacci has filed for patent to protect the following invention of his. The patent was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Preparation for storage of fission products
Patent number: 3994822
Abstract:
A method of preparing waste fission products for storage comprising combining graphite powder and a carbonaceous binder into one component, mixing this component with alpha-silicon carbide, and sprinkling this mixture on to waste fission product particles as the particles are tumbled in the presence of a solvent to form a tacky "overcoating" around the particles.The "overcoated" particles are warm pressed to form a "green" body, then the temperature is raised to carbonize the binder. The body is then heated at an elevated temperature in contact with silicon so as to melt the silicon and impregnate the body, to form a matrix of beta-silicon carbide enclosing the waste fission product particles by reaction-sintering.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 29, 1975
Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
Assignee: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Inventors: Mario De Bacci, Michael Stuart Thomas Price
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