RADIONUCLIDE GENERATION SYSTEM
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180025802A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-25

    申请号:US15549215

    申请日:2015-02-09

    申请人: Areva GmbH

    IPC分类号: G21G1/02

    CPC分类号: G21G1/02 G21C23/00

    摘要: A radionuclide generation system comprises a tube system configured to permit insertion and removal of irradiation targets into an instrumentation finger of a nuclear reactor, and an irradiation target drive system configured to insert the irradiation targets into the instrumentation finger and to remove the irradiation targets from the instrumentation finger. The radionuclide generation system further comprises an instrumentation and control unit which is linked to an online core monitoring system and being configured to calculate an optimum irradiation time for the irradiation targets based on the actual state of the reactor as provided by the online core monitoring system.

    RADIONUCLIDE GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING RADIONUCLIDES

    公开(公告)号:US20180108445A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-19

    申请号:US15568841

    申请日:2015-04-30

    申请人: AREVA GmbH

    摘要: A method of producing radionuclides from irradiation targets in a nuclear reactor uses at least one instrumentation tube system of a commercial nuclear reactor. Irradiation targets and dummy targets are inserted into an instrumentation finger and the irradiation targets are activated by exposing them to neutron flux in the nuclear reactor core to form a radionuclide. The dummy targets hold the irradiation targets at a predetermined axial position in the reactor core corresponding to a pre-calculated neutron flux density sufficient for converting the irradiation targets to the radionuclide. Separating the dummy targets from the activated irradiation targets includes exposure to a magnetic field to retain either the dummy targets or the activated irradiation targets in the instrumentation tube system and release the other one of the activated irradiation target or the dummy target from the instrumentation tube system. An apparatus adapted to the above method is also provided.