Partial defect verification of spent fuel assemblies by PDET: Principle and field testing in Interim Spent fuel Storage Facility (CLAB) in Sweden
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...from nuclear reactors globally, countries like Finland and Sweden are taking the lead to develop underground repositories to store their used nuclear fuel [6] [7]....
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...Because of their small size, fission chambers can be inserted even inside the fuel assembly in BWRs [6]....
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...Only a selection of guide tube location data is presented Data in Table III shows that in the region where the assembly is intact, the declared and measured burnups match very well as does the overall assembly average burnup with 12 percent of the fuel missing in the assembly....
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...The fission chambers are operated in pulse mode in which individual neutron events are detected....
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...However, the DCVD does not work well for fuel that has been cooled for a long time or low burnup fuel or in murky spent fuel pool conditions....
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...The current detection requirement by the IAEA for partial defect tests for irradiated fuel assemblies should assure that at least half of the fuel pins (50...
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...In the discharged spent fuel assembly (SFA), the guide tubes are filled with water when stored in the spent fuel pool....
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"Partial defect verification of spen..." refers background in this paper
...In the discharged spent fuel assembly (SFA), the guide tubes are filled with water when stored in the spent fuel pool....
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