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
A monitoring device of the position of an assembly containing nuclear fuel in a housing of a storage basket comprising:
- at least one mobile stop device;
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- a position indicator held at a stop in a first position by the mobile stop device when the mobile stop device is disposed in a first position, the first position of the position indicator indicating that the assembly occupies a first position in the housing, said mobile stop device being disposed to assume a second position following contact with the assembly when the assembly is disposed in a second position in the housing, the second position of the mobile stop device causing the mobile stop device to release the position indicator from the held first position and to permit the position indicator to automatically move from the first position to a second position indicating that the assembly occupies said second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.