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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Inventors:
Michael C. Prible, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew M. Bunker, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Michael D. Heibel, Harrison City, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 17/00 (2006.01); G21C 17/022 (2006.01); G01N 23/09 (2006.01); G21C 17/108 (2006.01); G21C 17/112 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 17/022 (2013.01); G01N 23/09 (2013.01); G21C 17/108 (2013.01); G21C 17/112 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for monitoring changes in the boron concentration in the coolant of a reactor during a nuclear plant outage that applies temperature compensation to the source range detector output. The method then monitors the compensated output signal to identify changes in the detector count rate above a preselected value.