Patent ID: 8360229

Claim:
An isolating plant for isolating nuclear fuel pellets fed in stacks, the isolating plant comprising: a feeding device including a feeding conveyor belt; an output device including an output conveyor belt; a delivery area disposed between said feeding device and said output device; a separating device disposed in said delivery area, driven by a pressure gas and configured to separate the fed nuclear fuel pellets from each other during operation of the plant with pressure-gas pulses and to deliver the nuclear fuel pellets one by one to said output device, said separating device including a conveying tube through which the nuclear fuel pellets to be isolated are passed during operation of the plant, said conveying tube having a tube wall and a number of pressure-gas distribution slots formed into said tube wall and connected to said pressure-gas line; a pressure-gas source; a pressure-gas line connected from said pressure-gas source to said separating device; a valve disposed in said pressure-gas line; and a synchronization device synchronizing said valve with a movement of the nuclear fuel pellets on said feeding device.