Patent ID: 7673544

Claim:
A separation and receiving apparatus of a hull and a pellet from a spent nuclear fuel rod, the apparatus comprising: a driving unit comprising a pin for pressing the spent nuclear fuel rod; a slitting unit comprising a blade portion cutting the hull of the nuclear fuel rod the nuclear fuel rod moving according to the pressing of the pin and a separator separating the hull cut by the blade portion and the pellet positioned within the hull; and a receiving unit receiving each the hull and the pellet in separate vessels, wherein the receiving unit is configured to automatically receive the separated pellet and hull in the separated vessels immediately after leaving the slitting unit during the pressing of the pin, wherein the vessel for receiving the separated hull has a plurality of passing holes formed on the side of the pellet vessel at intervals of 120 degrees according to a circumferential direction of the pellet vessel for receiving a respective portion of the separated hull during the pressing of the pin, wherein a hull guide guiding the peeled hull by the blade portion is inwardly concaved from the outside of the separator.