Process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly
AssigneeElectricite de France
InventorFabien Dory
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly of a nuclear power plant and more particularly on the anti-debris grid of the lower end piece of said assembly, during which at least one camera is controlled in the direction of said assembly and the stream of images recorded by said at least one camera is directed towards a man-machine interface which comprises at least one screen allowing a first operator to view said stream of video images, characterized in that it comprises a first step of detecting, using an image recognition algorithm, said migrating bodies, as well as at least a second step of alerting said operator if said algorithm has detected the potential presence of at least one migrating body.
Claims8
A process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly of a nuclear power plant and more particularly on an anti-debris grid of a lower end piece of the fuel assembly, the fuel assembly being immersed in a cooling pool, and the camera being fixed at a bottom of the pool and facing the lower end piece, during which at least one camera is controlled in the direction of the fuel assembly and the stream of video images recorded by the at least one camera is directed towards a man-machine interface which comprises at least one screen allowing a first operator to view said stream of video images, wherein the process comprises
- a first step of detecting, using an image recognition algorithm, the migrating bodies, and
- a second step of alerting the first operator if the image recognition algorithm has detected the potential presence of at least one migrating body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.