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Title: Neural net controlled tag gas sampling system for nuclear reactors

Abstract

A method and system for providing a tag gas identifier to a nuclear fuel rod and analyze escaped tag gas to identify a particular failed nuclear fuel rod. The method and system include disposing a unique tag gas composition into a plenum of a nuclear fuel rod, monitoring gamma ray activity, analyzing gamma ray signals to assess whether a nuclear fuel rod has failed and is emitting tag gas, activating a tag gas sampling and analysis system upon sensing tag gas emission from a failed nuclear rod and evaluating the escaped tag gas to identify the particular failed nuclear fuel rod.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Bolingbrook, IL
  2. Idaho Fall, ID
  3. Wheaton, IL
  4. Downers Grove, IL
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
870829
Patent Number(s):
US 5602886
Assignee:
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
neural; net; controlled; tag; gas; sampling; nuclear; reactors; method; providing; identifier; fuel; rod; analyze; escaped; identify; particular; failed; disposing; unique; composition; plenum; monitoring; gamma; ray; activity; analyzing; signals; assess; emitting; activating; analysis; sensing; emission; evaluating; gas composition; gas sampling; nuclear reactors; gamma ray; nuclear fuel; nuclear reactor; fuel rod; tag gas; neural net; /376/

Citation Formats

Gross, Kenneth C, Laug, Matthew T, Lambert, John D. B., and Herzog, James P. Neural net controlled tag gas sampling system for nuclear reactors. United States: N. p., 1997. Web.
Gross, Kenneth C, Laug, Matthew T, Lambert, John D. B., & Herzog, James P. Neural net controlled tag gas sampling system for nuclear reactors. United States.
Gross, Kenneth C, Laug, Matthew T, Lambert, John D. B., and Herzog, James P. 1997. "Neural net controlled tag gas sampling system for nuclear reactors". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/870829.
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author = {Gross, Kenneth C and Laug, Matthew T and Lambert, John D. B. and Herzog, James P},
abstractNote = {A method and system for providing a tag gas identifier to a nuclear fuel rod and analyze escaped tag gas to identify a particular failed nuclear fuel rod. The method and system include disposing a unique tag gas composition into a plenum of a nuclear fuel rod, monitoring gamma ray activity, analyzing gamma ray signals to assess whether a nuclear fuel rod has failed and is emitting tag gas, activating a tag gas sampling and analysis system upon sensing tag gas emission from a failed nuclear rod and evaluating the escaped tag gas to identify the particular failed nuclear fuel rod.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/870829}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1997},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1997}
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Approximate reconstruction of PET data with a self-organizing neural network
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