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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2019
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Takeda, Abiko, JP;
Abstract
In a canister horizontally installed and housed inside a concrete silo, at least two temperatures out of a temperature Tat a canister bottom portion to be one end portion in a lateral direction in a horizontally-installed attitude, a temperature Tat a canister side surface lower portion located below a horizontal plane passing through a center of the canister, a temperature Tat a canister lid portion to be the other end portion in the lateral direction, and a temperature Tat a canister side surface upper portion located above the horizontal plane passing through the center of the canister are monitored, and occurrence of leakage of an inert gas inside the canister is detected when there is a change in a temperature difference between the at least two temperatures.