US 2018/0025802 A1 · RADIONUCLIDE GENERATION SYSTEM

Abstract

A radionuclide generation system comprises a tube system configured to permit insertion and removal of irradiation targets into an instrumentation finger of a nuclear reactor, and an irradiation target drive system configured to insert the irradiation targets into the instrumentation finger and to remove the irradiation targets from the instrumentation finger. The radionuclide generation system further comprises an instrumentation and control unit which is linked to an online core monitoring system and being configured to calculate an optimum irradiation time for the irradiation targets based on the actual state of the reactor as provided by the online core monitoring system.

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Dependent claims

A radionuclide generation system, the system comprising:

a tube system configured to permit insertion and removal of irradiation targets into an instrumentation finger of a nuclear reactor,
an irradiation target drive system configured to insert the irradiation targets into the instrumentation finger and to remove the irradiation targets from the instrumentation finger, and
an instrumentation and control unit,
the instrumentation and control unit being linked to an online core monitoring system and being configured to calculate an optimum irradiation time for the irradiation targets based on the actual state of the reactor as provided by the online core monitoring system.

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Facts

Application

15/549,215Filed 9 Feb 2015

Published

25 Jan 2018

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Classification7 codes

G21G 1/02
Arrangements for converting chemical elements by electromagnetic radiation, corpuscular radiation or particle bombardment, e.g. producing…: in…
G21C 23/00
Adaptations of reactors to facilitate experimentation or irradiation
G21C 17/066
Devices or arrangements for monitoring or testing fuel or fuel elements outside the reactor core, e.g. for burn-up, for contamination: control of…
Y02E 30/30
Energy generation of nuclear origin: nuclear fission reactors

Radionuclide generation system

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Radionuclide generation system

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Abstract

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