Patent ID: 8899876

Claim:
A semi-buried storage facility for hazardous materials packaged in containers comprising: at least one cell extending in a longitudinal direction XX′, and delimited by buried vertical firewalls forming a pit containing the containers containing hazardous materials of different categories, and each cell of the at least one cell being surrounded by an enclosure, said enclosure comprising vertical firewalls extending above the ground, and at least one depositing and receiving area for containers comprising a roadway for trucks and/or a handling area for containers arriving from or destined for a rail transport line, the depositing and receiving area extending in the longitudinal direction XX′ outside a longitudinal enclosure wall over at least the entire length of the cell or cells, and a corridor-shaped depositing strip inside each enclosure extending in the longitudinal direction XX′ between each cell of the at least one cell and the longitudinal enclosure wall, and a motor-driven container-handling gantry capable of moving a container suspended between the at least one depositing and receiving area and a cell of the at least one cell, horizontally in a transverse direction YY′ at a height greater than the height of the enclosure walls, then vertically down to the bottom of each cell, the gantry being capable of being moved in the longitudinal direction XX′ above the enclosure walls.