Framatome Gmbh

Areva Gmbh

Areva Np Gmbh

Wolfgang Hummel

Egon Neubauer

Werner Hoefers

Klaus Kurzer

Carsten Burchardt

Christoph Zimmermann

Jan Langenberger

Marc Michalsky

Peter Zeh

Thomas Albrecht

Werner Höfers

Timo Feller

An analysis device for detecting fission products by measurement of a radioactivity includes a first line for carrying a liquid sample, a first detector connected to the first line and designed for measuring the radioactivity of fission products contained in the liquid sample, a second line for carrying a gas sample and a second detector connected to the second line and designed for measuring the radioactivity of fission products contained in the gas sample. The analysis device includes a separation device for separating gas from the first line carrying the liquid sample, which line has an outlet opening into the second line for gas separated from the liquid sample. The outlet opening fluidly connected to the second lines in such a manner that the gas separated from the liquid sample is suppliable as a gas sample to the second detector for measuring the radioactivity of fission products contained therein.

Analysis device for the detection of fission products by measurement of a radioactivity

The disclosure relates to a device for checking a fuel rod comprising a testing container having first and second chambers, a first checking device arranged in the testing container, wherein the testing container has at least one inlet opening, at least one outlet opening, and an insertion opening for inserting the fuel rod into the second chamber, and wherein a valve is arranged in a connecting channel connecting the first and the second chamber. A method is disclosed for checking a fuel rod in a water-filled basin of a submerged nuclear plant having such a device, wherein the fuel rod is inserted into the second chamber of the testing container through the insertion opening while the valve is closed, wherein a fluid is fed in via the at least one inlet opening, and wherein the valve is opened in order to check the fuel rod with the first checking device.

Device and method for checking a fuel rod of a fuel element

The invention relates to a device for performing a leak test on a fuel rod capsule, which contains at least one fuel rod and test gas, which device comprises a test container, which is designed to accommodate at least one fuel rod capsule and can be lowered into a pool of a nuclear plant flooded with water. According to the invention, a mass spectrometer is fluidically connected to the interior of the test container in such a way that a gas flow can be fed to the mass spectrometer in order to sense the concentration of the test gas that has diffused into the test container from the fuel rod capsule.

Device and method for performing a leak test on fuel rod capsules

A method for encapsulating a fuel rod or a fuel rod section in a container includes inserting the fuel rod or fuel rod section into the container. One of the ends of the container is connected to a purging-gas line. The container is dehydrated and purged by use of a purging gas. The ends of the container are connected to a bypass line in such a way that a closed gas circuit is produced and a hot gas is circulated in the gas circuit until the absolute moisture content reaches an end value at which the absolute moisture content no longer rises. The container is disconnected from the gas circuit and subsequently the container is closed in a fluid-tight manner at both ends.

Method and device for storing containers having an encapsulated fuel rod or a fuel rod section

Method and device for encapsulating a fuel rod or a fuel rod section for temporary storage

A method for measuring the deflection of a fuel element can for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor involves taking an image of the fuel element can with a camera and evaluating the image using photogrammetry. By means of the method, it is possible to determine the deflection of a fuel element can by taking a single image, even in the absence of external structural features recognizable in the image, and without knowledge of the relative position between the camera and the fuel element can.

Method for measuring the deflection of a fuel element can for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor

A container, a device, and a method encapsulate a fuel rod or a fuel rod portion in a gas-tight manner. The container has a hollow cylindrical container part which is closed at the free ends of the container part in a fluid-tight manner by a respective single-piece closure stopper. The closure stopper is provided with a channel that fluidically connects the flushing chamber of the container part to the exterior exclusively in an intermediate position, which is assumed prior to reaching an end position during the assembly process and in which the closure stopper additionally projects out of the container part by an axial length compared to the end position of the closure stopper.

Container, device and method for encapsulating a fuel rod or a fuel rod portion in a gas-tight manner

A method and a device measure for a deformation of a fuel element of a pressurized water reactor having a plurality of control rod guide tubes. A probe displaceable in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the control rod guide tube is inserted in the interior of at least one control rod guide tube having at least one reference axis, and supported in at least one section of the control rod guide tube on the interior wall thereof, such that the orientation of the at least one reference axis is unambiguously a function of the orientation of the longitudinal axis of the control rod guide tube in the section. The orientation of the at least one reference axis in the section of the control rod guide tube is determined relative to the orientation of the or a further reference axis of the probe in a different section.

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Neumarkt, Germany

Wolfgang Hummel