advanced gas-cooled reactor
Semi-supervised learning approach for crack detection and identification in advanced gas-cooled reactor graphite bricks
... One of the life-limiting components of an Advanced Gas cooled Reactor (AGR) is its graphite core. The bricks present in the core undergo radiolytic oxidation throughout their lifetime which ...
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Improved visual inspection of advanced gas-cooled reactor fuel channels
... of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) power ...and advanced image processing techniques which have been designed to improve the quality of the final chanoramas are ...
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Structural Integrity Issues in High Temperature Nuclear Plant: Experience from Operation of the UK Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Fleet
... typical Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) power station and has outlined the key degradation mechanisms that need to be considered when assessing the lifetime of key metallic ...and ...
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Keeping it Simple : Approaches to and Value of Simplicity in Computational Modelling, with Examples from Modelling the Core of the Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor
... Computing power continues to increase and yet run times don’t improve as models get increasingly complex. This paper examines some of the reasons for this and argues that it is worth overcoming these in many cases. Using ...
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The Development of a Physical Model of an Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Core: Outline of the Feasibility Study
... the Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) cores are subject to degradation processes that are predicted to lead to greater numbers of weakened and cracked ...
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Semi-supervised learning approach for crack detection and identification in advanced gas-cooled reactor graphite bricks
... One of the life-limiting components of an Advanced Gas cooled Reactor (AGR) is its graphite core. The bricks present in the core undergo radiolytic oxidation throughout their lifetime which ...
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Sensitivity Analysis of an Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor Control Rod Model
... seven Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor nuclear power stations (AGRs), which pro- vide around 20% of its ...A reactor typically has around 80 control rods, each with its own ...the ...
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Characterizing the effects of elevated temperature on the air void pore structure of advanced gas-cooled reactor pressure vessel concrete using x-ray computed tomography
... Abstract. X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT) has been applied to non- destructively characterise changes in the microstructure of a concrete used in the pressure vessel structure of Advanced ...
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PROJECT ACCENT: GRAPHITE IRRADIATION-INDUCED CREEP IN A MATERIALS TEST REACTOR
... Graphite core degradation of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) in the form of brick cracking is one of the life limiting features of AGRs the in the UK. Understanding of the phenomenon of ...
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3-D advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor fuel channel reconstruction using structure-from-motion
... of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) cores are inspected using specialist tools which record video footage and other sensory data for each channel which undergoes ...
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Condition monitoring of an advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor core
... Abstract: A critical component of an advanced gas-cooled reactor station is the graphite core. As a station ages, the graphite bricks that comprise the core can distort and may eventually ...
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3-D advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor fuel channel reconstruction using structure-from-motion
... of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) cores are inspected using specialist tools which record video footage and other sensory data for each channel which undergoes ...
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Monitoring a gas-cooled nuclear reactor core integrity
... an Advanced Gas-cooled Nuclear Reactor (AGR) ...the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations are approaching the end of their predicted operational ...
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Communication from the Commission on the nuclear industries in the European Union. An illustrative nuclear programme according to Article 40 of the Euratom Treaty. COM (97) 401 final, 25 September 1997
... -44- ABBREVIATIONS ABB AFR AGR Asea Brown Boveri Away From Reactor Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor BNFL British Nuclear Fuels pic CEEC CIS Central and Eastern European Countries Community of[r] ...
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Nonlinear model-based condition monitoring of advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor cores
... in gas- cooled nuclear reactors and it ages and degrades over ...a reactor in a nuclear power ...an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear plant, it is important to ...
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Material Challenges of the new Advanced Gas Cooled Systems
... discusses gas to gas heat exchangers including the IHX and the ...the reactor minimising the need for repair or ...a gas/gas heat exchanger inserted in the primary circuit to recuperate ...
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Effect of Heat Treatment on TEM Microstructures of Zirconium Carbide Coating Layer in Fuel Particle for Advanced High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor
... like shape with the c axis roughly perpendicular to the thickness direction of the sheet before the heat treatment. Each sheet would be swept out to ZrC grain boundaries due to the growth of the ZrC grains, keeping the ...
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Control rod monitoring of advanced gas-cooled reactors
... various reactor monitoring parameters and information from channel inspections are contained within the Intelligent Monitoring Assessment Panel System (IMAPS) ...of reactor parameters in advance of the ...
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A History of Dosimetry for the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
... other reactor assemblies, at a level above the reactor pressure vessel liner to allow coolant flow into the base of the fuel ...the gas baffle dome to form a pressure boundary between the inlet and ...
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Reanalysis of the Gas-cooled fast reactor experiments at the zero power facility Proteus – Spectral indices
... Early designs of the gas cooled fast reactor were investigated experimentally in the zero power facility PROTEUS during the 1970s. Recently, measured results has started to be re-interpreted with the ...
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