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Title: Monitoring and Analysis of In-Pile Phenomena in Advanced Test Reactor using Acoustic Telemetry

Abstract

The interior of a nuclear reactor presents a particularly harsh and challenging environment for both sensors and telemetry due to high temperatures and high fluxes of energetic and ionizing particles among the radioactive decay products. A number of research programs are developing acoustic-based sensing approach to take advantage of the acoustic transmission properties of reactor cores. Idaho National Laboratory has installed vibroacoustic receivers on and around the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) containment vessel to take advantage of acoustically telemetered sensors such as thermoacoustic (TAC) transducers. The installation represents the first step in developing an acoustic telemetry infrastructure. This paper presents the theory of TAC, application of installed vibroacoustic receivers in monitoring the in-pile phenomena inside the ATR, and preliminary data processing results.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Dept. of Human Factors, Controls, and Statistics
  2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Dept. of Fuel Performance and Design
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
OSTI Identifier:
1179378
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-14-32991
TRN: US1500165
DOE Contract Number:  
AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 9. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human Machine Interface Technologies, Charlotte, NC (United States), 23-26 Feb 2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; ATR REACTOR; TELEMETRY; ACOUSTIC MONITORING; IN CORE INSTRUMENTS; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS; acoustic telemetry; in-pile monitoring; thermoacoustic sensors

Citation Formats

Agarwal, Vivek, Smith, James A., and Jewell, James Keith. Monitoring and Analysis of In-Pile Phenomena in Advanced Test Reactor using Acoustic Telemetry. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Agarwal, Vivek, Smith, James A., & Jewell, James Keith. Monitoring and Analysis of In-Pile Phenomena in Advanced Test Reactor using Acoustic Telemetry. United States.
Agarwal, Vivek, Smith, James A., and Jewell, James Keith. 2015. "Monitoring and Analysis of In-Pile Phenomena in Advanced Test Reactor using Acoustic Telemetry". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1179378.
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abstractNote = {The interior of a nuclear reactor presents a particularly harsh and challenging environment for both sensors and telemetry due to high temperatures and high fluxes of energetic and ionizing particles among the radioactive decay products. A number of research programs are developing acoustic-based sensing approach to take advantage of the acoustic transmission properties of reactor cores. Idaho National Laboratory has installed vibroacoustic receivers on and around the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) containment vessel to take advantage of acoustically telemetered sensors such as thermoacoustic (TAC) transducers. The installation represents the first step in developing an acoustic telemetry infrastructure. This paper presents the theory of TAC, application of installed vibroacoustic receivers in monitoring the in-pile phenomena inside the ATR, and preliminary data processing results.},
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