A Cladding Failure Monitor for Liquid Metal-Cooled Reactor Systems
Description:
A cladding failure monitor using the principle of detection of rare gas fission products in the cover gas system of liquid metal-cooled reactors, was developed which efficiently discriminates against AR41. This discrimination is accomplished by electrostatic precipitation of the rare gas daughter nuclides; since K41, the daughter of Ar41, is not radioactive, the activity of the precipitation is chiefly due to decay of various Rb and Cs fission products. The monitor equipment is described. Resu…
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Date:
October 1963
Creator:
Smith, R. R. & Doe, B. B.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department