Remote real time x-ray examination of fuel elements in a hot cell environment

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6577228

Yapuncich, F L

This report discusses the Remote Real Time X-ray System which will allow for detailed examination of fuel elements. This task will be accomplished in a highly radioactive hot cell environment. Two remote handling systems win be utilized at the examination station. One handling system will transfer the fuel element to and from the shielded x-ray system. A second handling system will allow for vertical and rotational inspection of the fuel elements. The process win include removing a single nuclear fuel element from a element fabrication magazine(EFM), positioning the fuel element within the shielding envelope of the x-ray system and transferring the fuel element from the station manipulator to the x-ray system manipulator, performing the x-ray inspection, and then transferring the fuel element to either the element storage magazine(ESM) or a reject bin.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6577228
• Report Number(s): ANL/FC/CP-77793; CONF-930403-44; ON: DE93009975
• Resource Relation: Conference: 5. topical meeting on robotics and remote systems, Knoxville, TN (United States), 26-29 Apr 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
42 ENGINEERING
FUEL ELEMENTS
IMAGES
X-RAY EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
HOT CELLS
INSPECTION
NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
SHIELDING
EQUIPMENT
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS TESTING
REACTOR COMPONENTS
TESTING
440800* - Miscellaneous Instrumentation- (1990-)
220300 - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Fuel Elements
420203 - Engineering- Handling Equipment & Procedures