Talk:Nuclear flask

Diagram and description inaccurate?

I'm not sure how reliable the diagram, and description inspired by it, are. (As of this revision). For one thing, it doesn't even state whether it's describing a Magnox or an AGR flask -- presumably a Magnox flask, given the thickness of the steel and the absence of lead shielding.

The diagram needs to be compared to the image here [1], and the cutaway in the CORE "spotter's guide" [2]

It's a shame the diagram doesn't make more of the distinctive cooling fins and shape of the flasks, so iconic in the repeated lingering shots of the nuclear train in Edge of Darkness; in pics from the 1980s [3] [4] before they added the transport cabins; and the crash-test one [5] now on display in Blackpool. Also the innermost "skip" is surely rather larger than our diagram presents it.

The presentation of the "flask locking hasp and bolt" which "takes around two hours to remove" also seems to be a bit curious. In other drawings there seem to be a number of bolts -- sixteen or thirty two, securing each edge of the lid. Jheald (talk) 12:01, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Flasks also sometimes go by road: [6] Jheald (talk) 12:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I've adjusted the descriptions a little bit; but not the diagram. Jheald (talk) 12:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Try this mid-1980s video about Nuclear flask testing, on YouTube here: [7] if you want to see how they're made and tested. The video's from an old BBC Horizon programme. The flask is drop-forged from a single billet, and the lid (also drop forged from a single billet) is added later. Price for a complete flask is around 1/2 a million pounds, 1980s prices. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.249.181 (talk) 20:46, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Not a Horizon, I think, nor a Q.E.D.. Looks to me like a publicity film made for the CEGB, which ran the Magnox power stations at the time through its subsidiary Magnox Electric Ltd; hence the more recent "Magnox" logo at the start and the end. Magnox Electric was transferred to BNFL in 1998, then devolved off as a separate free-standing concern in 2007, and even more recently has been split into two parts, Magnox North and Magnox South. But I can't confirm whether the logo on the film is/was/has been in fact that of Magnox Electric.

A good clip all the same, even if made with an agenda. Jheald (talk) 21:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I suspect that the film was originally made for the CEGB then, as it has a 1980s 'feel' to it. I surmised it was Horizon as it was narrated by Paul Vaughan and he was one of the main narrators on that programme at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.66.73 (talk) 21:35, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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Suggest merge of Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask and Nuclear flask. Suggest broaden to nuclear vessel or an article on any artifact used to contain nuclear material/radionuclides: production, shipping, storage - or does such an article exist already? Wakari07 (talk) 15:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Then have a separate article for operations per country (like the UK and why not, France and US pages to start; i'd work some on Belgium)

Several types of nuclear vessels: nuclear reactors, radionuclide shipping cask, ... can be in the main (evt. nuclear vessel) article.

Propose merge of the subject in a more hierarchical way. Propose to have this subject as Nuclear vessel > Nuclear vessels in the United Kingdom; the differentiation between nuclear reactor and radioactive waste treatment/transport can then be done, grouped per country. There's interesting material on the same subject (containment/shipping of "active nuclear materials") - What do you think? Wakari07 (talk) 15:40, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I would just merge them under Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask as nuclear vessel isn't a term used to describe shipping containers. During the merge it can be made clear that in the UK they're called flasks, not casks. Karmos (talk) 20:53, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

• Support merging articles. Pkgx (talk) 16:08, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
• Suppport merge. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:08, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Merged. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:08, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Contained material

A hook with Ionizing_radiation#Nuclear power. Wakari07 (talk) 15:20, 19 September 2012 (UTC)