Remote material analysis of nuclear power station steam generator tubes by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Remote material analysis of nuclear power station steam generator tubes by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

We report on a novel design 75-m length umbilical fiber-optic LIBS (FOLIBS) system suitable for remotely determining the copper content of 316H austenitic stainless steel superheater bifurcation tubing within the pressure vessels of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations. The syste...

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Veröffentlicht in:Spectrochimica acta. Part B: Atomic spectroscopy 2001-06, Vol.56 (6), p.821-830
Hauptverfasser: Whitehouse, A.I., Young, J., Botheroyd, I.M., Lawson, S., Evans, C.P., Wright, J.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR)
Fiber-optic LIBS (FOLIBS)
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
Nuclear power station
Remote inspection
Semi-quantitative elemental analysis
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Zusammenfassung:We report on a novel design 75-m length umbilical fiber-optic LIBS (FOLIBS) system suitable for remotely determining the copper content of 316H austenitic stainless steel superheater bifurcation tubing within the pressure vessels of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations. The system was deployed during the routine reactor outage programs for Hunterston ‘B’ and Hinkley Point ‘B’ stations during the summer of 1999 and used successfully to determine the copper content of the bifurcations over the range 0.04%
ISSN:0584-8547
1873-3565
DOI:10.1016/S0584-8547(01)00232-4