The invention relates to the technical field of uranium dioxide core block sintering, in particular to a stepping beam type sintering furnace. The sintering furnace comprises a thermocouple, an electrode box, a heat insulation chopping board structure, a heat insulation brick structure, a heating body, a refractory brick structure, a metal furnace shell, a heat preservation brick structure, a stepping beam structure, a top cover, heat preservation cotton and a dome structure; a design scheme combining arching and hoisting is adopted, the hot bricks in the high-temperature area are built in anarch-raising mode, and the heat insulation material and the heat preservation material are of a hoisting structure, so that the risk of a hearth collapse clamping boat is reduced; the top cover structure is optimized, the number of heat preservation materials and heat insulation materials of the top cover is reduced, the load bearing of the aluminum oxide " I " shaped bricks is reduced, and the heat preservation effect of the hearth of the high temperature area is improved; the temperature of the surface of the top cover of the high-temperature zone is reduced, the operation period of the sintering furnace is prolonged, and the temperature of the working environment of the site is improved; and a mortise and tenon arch structure is adopted in the dome structure, the operation stability isimproved, and the collapse of the hearth is avoided.