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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Applicants:
Naotaka Oda, Yokohama, JP;
Yasushi Goto, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Miyazaki, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To provide a rod block monitor in which irrespective of the selection or non-selection of a control rod, such a process is repeatedly executed that gain adjustment is performed at fixed intervals at all times to match a local area average value of signals of neutron detectors surrounding the control rod with a nuclear reactor average power and a block level appropriate to the local area average value of the neutron detector signals after the gain adjustment is set.