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Unattended verification and high speed counting of spent fuel bundles
- 1. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
- 2. Canberra-Packard (Australia)
Description
A significant development in spent fuel verification was achieved with the installation of an unattended Spent Fuel Transfer Monitor (SFTM) at the Bruce NGS. The SFTM automatically counts, verifies, and stores a spectrum on each CANDU bundle transferred from primary to secondary wet storage at rates up to 2-bundle per second. Test results show that bundles with burn-ups of 8 to 400-MWhr/Ukg and cooling times of 3-months to 9-years can be counted and verified reliably using a fixed detector/collimator geometry. It is estimated that the SFTM will save the IAEA more than 120-Personnel Days of Inspection (PDI) per year at this Facility. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA
- Imprint Place
- Vienna (Austria)
- Imprint Title
- IAEA symposium on international safeguards
- Imprint Pagination
- 1990 p.
- Journal Page Range
- [9 p.]
Conference
- Title
- IAEA symposium on international safeguards
- Dates
- 13-17 Oct 1997
- Place
- Vienna (Austria)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Austria
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 30029638
- Subject category
- S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ECONOMICS; IAEA SAFEGUARDS; INSPECTION; MONITORING; SAFEGUARDS; SPENT FUELS; VERIFICATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SAFEGUARDS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 8 figs Imprint:This IAEA CD-ROM can be used for WINDOWS 3.1, WINDOWS 95 or NT and MACINTOSH; Acrobat Reader 3.1 is included; data in pdf format. Available from International Atomic Energy Agency, Dept. of Safeguards, Vienna, Austria
- Secondary number(s)
- STI/DAT--3; IAEA-SM--351