Measurement of nuclear fuel assembly’s bow from visual inspection’s video record

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/26722445:_____/23:N0000003

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857332200599X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857332200599X?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2022.12.033" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.net.2022.12.033</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measurement of nuclear fuel assembly’s bow from visual inspection’s video record

Original language description

The bow of the nuclear fuel assembly is a well-known phenomenon. One of the vital criteria during the history of nuclear fuel development has been fuel assembly’s mechanical stability. Once present, the fuel assembly bow can lead to safety issues like excessive water gap and power redistribution or even incomplete rod insertion (IRI). The extensive bow can result in assembly handling and loading problems. This is why the fuel assembly’s bow is one of the most often controlled geometrical factors during periodic fuel inspections for VVER when compared e.g. to on-site fuel rod gap measurements or other instrumental measurements performed on-site. Our proposed screening method uses existing video records for fuel inspection. We establish video frames normalization and aggregation for the purposes of bow measurement. The whole process is done by digital image processing algorithms which analyze rotations of video frames, extract angles whose source is the fuel set torsion, and reconstruct torsion schema. This approach provides results comparable to the commonly utilized method. We tested this new approach in real operation on 19 fuel assemblies with different campaign numbers and designs, where the average deviation from other methods was less than 2 % on average. Due to the fact, that the method has not yet been validated during full scale measurements of the fuel inspection, the preliminary results stand for that we recommend this method as a complementary part of standard bow measurement procedures to increase measurement robustness, lower time consumption and preserve or increase accuracy. After completed validation it is expected that the proposed method allows standalone fuel assembly bow measurements.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20501 - Materials engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

ISSN

1738-5733

e-ISSN

1738-5733

Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

KR - KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

1485-1494

UT code for WoS article

000972482200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85151429313