Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detecting pin diversion from pressurized water reactors spent fuel assemblies
- Patent Title (中): 从加压水反应堆废燃料组件检测引脚
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Application No.: US12619791Application Date: 2009-11-17
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Publication No.: US09543046B2Publication Date: 2017-01-10
- Inventor: Young S. Ham , Shivakumar Sitaraman
- Applicant: Young S. Ham , Shivakumar Sitaraman
- Applicant Address: US CA Livermore
- Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
- Current Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Livermore
- Agent Eddie E. Scott
- Main IPC: G21C17/06
- IPC: G21C17/06

Abstract:
Detecting diversion of spent fuel from Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) by determining possible diversion including the steps of providing a detector cluster containing gamma ray and neutron detectors, inserting the detector cluster containing the gamma ray and neutron detectors into the spent fuel assembly through the guide tube holes in the spent fuel assembly, measuring gamma ray and neutron radiation responses of the gamma ray and neutron detectors in the guide tube holes, processing the gamma ray and neutron radiation responses at the guide tube locations by normalizing them to the maximum value among each set of responses and taking the ratio of the gamma ray and neutron responses at the guide tube locations and normalizing the ratios to the maximum value among them and producing three signatures, gamma, neutron, and gamma-neutron ratio, based on these normalized values, and producing an output that consists of these signatures that can indicate possible diversion of the pins from the spent fuel assembly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110026661A1 DETECTING PIN DIVERSION FROM PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS SPENT FUEL ASSEMBLIES Public/Granted day:2011-02-03
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