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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2006
Mihai G. M. Pop, Lynchburg, VA (US);
John Carroll Griffith, Lynchburg, VA (US);
William Edward Allmon, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Brian Glenn Lockamon, Evington, VA (US);
Mihai G. M. Pop, Lynchburg, VA (US);
John Carroll Griffith, Lynchburg, VA (US);
William Edward Allmon, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Brian Glenn Lockamon, Evington, VA (US);
Areva NP, Inc., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A method to characterize the power transfer of a nuclear component is provided including the steps of obtaining a sample of a deposit layer on a side of a nuclear component, obtaining a scanning electron microscope image of an outside surface of the sample, obtaining a scanning electron microscope image of an inside surface of the sample, analyzing the scanning electron microscope images of the outside and inside surfaces of the sample for a presence of capillaries and steam chimneys, and calculating the power transfer of the component based on a number of steam chimneys in the deposit layer.