The International Remote Monitoring Project -- First results of the Argentina nuclear power station field trial
- Ente Nacional Regulador Nuclear, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
As part of the International Remote Monitoring Project field trials, during the month of March, 1995 a Remote Monitoring System (RMS) was installed at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station in Embalse, Argentina. This system monitors the status of four typical Candu spent fuel dry storage silos. The monitoring equipment for each silo consists of analog temperature and gamma radiation sensors and digital motion and electronic fiber-optic seals connected to a wireless Authenticate Item Monitoring System (AIMS). All sensor data are authenticated and transmitted via RF link to Receiver Processor Units (RPU) coupled to Remote Monitoring System equipment located in a nearby IAEA/ENREN inspector office. One of these RPUs is connected to Remote Monitoring equipment capable of information transmission (via commercial telephone links) to Data Review Stations (DRS) at ENREN laboratories in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The other RPU is used for on-site data storage and analysis. It is anticipated that this information will soon be transmitted to a DRS at the ABACC facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During these trials site data will be collected and analyzed periodically from Buenos Aires, Albuquerque, and Rio de Janeiro. Installation detail and data analysis will be presented in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 225386
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950787-; TRN: IM9621%%316
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 36. annual meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Palm Desert, CA (United States), 9-12 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 36. annual meeting: Proceedings. Volume 24; PB: 1347 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
EMBALSE REACTOR
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
STORAGE FACILITIES
SPENT FUELS
DRY STORAGE
MONITORING
IAEA SAFEGUARDS
FIELD TESTS
GAMMA DETECTION
TEMPERATURE MONITORING
RADIATION MONITORING
MOTION DETECTION SYSTEMS
SECURITY SEALS
DATA ACQUISITION
DATA ANALYSIS
INSTALLATION