A practical system for the measurement of flows in a nuclear reactor

With the purpose of making practical the neutron flux map in a nuclear reactor, the traditional foils are replaced by calibrated wires, and the activity rates through the wire are maked with a directional detector coupled to a collimator and to a servomechanism that moves the wire, to make the measurements through it. The servomechanism can be automatically controlled, and the information can be stored in a multichannel or directly pass to a plotter according to the continued or step by step measurements through the wire. For the system design it was necessary to fix the collimator dimensions according to the detector and the wire characteristics. In conclusion, this method is practical and exact, and their automation allows time economy. (author)