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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 1980
Filed:
May. 06, 1977
Russell M Ball, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In order to map the power distribution of a nuclear fuel element, a passive detector is laid along the fuel element in situ to record the residual radiation of the fuel element. The detector spatially records the residual radiation as an image in a radioactive reaction product. In the preferred embodiment, the detector comprises a cylindrical casing or wand enshrouding a material which converts incident gamma radiation having an energy level exceeding a preselected threshold to a correspondingly distributed neutron radiation field. The sheath encases a neutron field-sensitive activant, such as gold in the form of a filament longitudinally disposed in the casing. The image of the low-level radiation field can thereafter be analyzed according to relatively risk-free techniques to map the power distribution of the fuel element.
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