Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Burn-up profile measuring method, burn-up profile measuring apparatus, radiation signal distribution measuring apparatus, and burn-up profile measuring program
- Patent Title (中): 燃烧轮廓测量方法,燃烧轮廓测量仪,辐射信号分布测量仪和燃烧曲线测量程序
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Application No.: US12595546Application Date: 2008-04-11
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Publication No.: US08406368B2Publication Date: 2013-03-26
- Inventor: Hironori Kumanomido , Naotaka Oda , Yutaka Tokiwa , Makoto Ueda
- Applicant: Hironori Kumanomido , Naotaka Oda , Yutaka Tokiwa , Makoto Ueda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-106332 20070413
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/057203 WO 20080411
- International Announcement: WO2008/129969 WO 20081030
- Main IPC: G21C17/10
- IPC: G21C17/10 ; G21C17/108 ; G21C17/00

Abstract:
An upper detector and a lower detector that face at least one side of a fuel assembly, on which neutrons are irradiated in a nuclear reactor, and detect radiation are set at a predetermined interval in an axial direction of the fuel assembly. Distributions of radiation signals are measured by the upper detector and the lower detector while the fuel assembly and the upper detector and the lower detectors are relatively moved along the axial direction of the fuel assembly. Soundness of radiation signals measured by the upper detector and the lower detector is determined in every measurement by comparing radiation signal distributions obtained by measuring the same portion in the axial direction of the fuel assembly in a multiplexed manner with the upper detector and the lower detector. Thereafter, relative burn-up is calculated by utilizing the measured radiation signals to measure a burn-up profile. According to the present invention, it is possible to measure a burn-up profile of the fuel assembly while securing reliability of a measurement result.
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