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Remote field Eddy Current Technique Development for Gap Measurement of Neighboring Tubes of Nuclear Fuel Channel in Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor  

Jung, H.K. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, D.H. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Y.S. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Huh, H (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Cheong, Y.M. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing / v.24, no.2, 2004 , pp. 164-170 More about this Journal
Abstract
Liquid Injection Nozzle(LIN) tube and Calandria tube(CT) in pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) are .ross-aligned horizontally. These neighboring tubes can contact each other due to the sag of the calandria tube resulting from the irradiation creep and thermal creep, and fuel load, etc. In order to judge the contact which might be the safety concern, the remote field eddy current (RFEC) technology is applied for the gap measurement in this paper. LIN can be detected by inserting the RFEC probe into pressure tube (PT) at the crossing point directly. To obtain the optimal conditions of the RFEC inspection, the sensitivity, penetration and noise signals are considered simultaneously. The optimal frequency and coil spacing are 1kHz and 200mm respectively. Possible noises during LIN signal acquisition are caused by lift-off, PT thickness variation, and gap variation between PT and CT. The simulated noise signals were investigated by the Volume Integral Method(VIM). Signal analysis on the voltage plane describes the amplitude and shape of LIN and possible defects at several frequencies. All the RFEC measurements in the laboratory were done in variance with the CT/LIN gap and showed the relationship between the LIN gap and the signal parameters by analyzing the voltage plane signals.
Keywords
PHWR; fuel channel; gap measurement; RFECT; volume integral method;
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