Device To Monitor the Position of an Assembly Containing Nuclear Fuel In a Storage Basket Housing
AssigneeTn International
InventorRoger Lahille
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Abstract
The invention relates to a monitoring device (20) of the position of an assembly containing nuclear fuel (4) in a housing of a storage basket (2). According to the invention, it comprises at least one mobile stop device (24, 26, 28) and a position indicator (30) suitable for being held at a stop by the mobile stop device in a first position indicating that the assembly occupies a first position, said mobile stop device being arranged so as to be able to be placed, by means of contact with the assembly located in a second position in its housing, in a position enabling it to release the position indicator devised to move automatically from the first position to a second position indicating that the assembly occupies the second position.
Claims15
Monitoring device of the position of an assembly containing nuclear fuel in a housing of a storage basket, characterised in that it comprises at least one mobile stop device and a position indicator suitable for being held at a stop by the mobile stop device in a first position indicating that the assembly occupies a first position in its housing, said mobile stop device being arranged so as to be able to be placed, by means of contact with the assembly located in a second position in its housing, in a position enabling it to release the position indicator devised to move automatically from the first position to a second position indicating that the assembly occupies said second position.
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