decan

plural decans · alternative dekan

1. EgyptologyOne of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by approximately 10 degrees.

present singular third person decans · participle present decanning · participle past decanned · past decanned

1. To remove (something, especially nuclear reactor fuel) from a can or similar protective enclosure, cladding, etc.

   (a) collecting end-of-use automobiles; (b) dismantling them into major components, including batteries and catalytic converters; (c) decanning the converters by shearing the cans crossways into two halves; (d) [...]

   2011, Frank Crundwell, Michael Moats, Venkoba Ramachandran, Timothy Robinson, W. G. Davenport, Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel, Cobalt and Platinum Group Metals, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 539

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   (4) The time required to decan the elements should be minimized due to the highly reactive nature of the exposed fuel even in the inert atmosphere of the cell. Remote Repair. The decanning machine is to be remotely operated, [...]

   1962, American Nuclear Society, Hot Laboratory Division, Winter Meeting, Proceedings of the tenth Conference on Hot Laboratories and Equipment

   A machine to decan the blanket elements contained in the core, outer, and inner blanket subassemblies is being designed. The machine will consist of transfer magazines, a cutting unit, an ejector unit and a sampling unit.

   1965, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Reactor Development Program Progress Report

   Can Design for Nonisothermal Pancake Forging of Gamma Titanium Aluminide Alloys The design of cans to produce [...]. After decanning, the pancakes revealed "flaky" and sporadically cracked flat surfaces, noticeable dead metal zones at the [...]

   1996, Journal of Engineering for Industry

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Deccan.