Demonstration of long term optical fiber thermometry in the in-core region of a nuclear reactor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3172, Issue , 1997, Pages 469-

  Jensen, Fredrik ^a   Nakazawa, Masaharu ^a   Kakuta, Tsunemi ^b   Shikama, Tatsuo ^c   Narui, Minora ^c   Sagawa, Tsutomu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infrared; Nuclear Reactor; Optical fiber; Radiation; Sensing; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; EXPERIMENTS; FIBERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RADIATION; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SILICA; SMOKE; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

CERENKOV RADIATIONS; CORE REGIONS; FIBER OPTIC TEMPERATURES; GAMMA DOSE RATES; INCIDENT RADIATIONS; INDUCED ABSORPTIONS; INFRARED; INFRARED EMISSIONS; INFRARED LIGHTS; INFRARED REGIONS; INFRARED WINDOWS; LONG TERMS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES; OH CONTENTS; RADIATION RESISTANCES; SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSMITTERS; SILICA FIBERS; SPECTRAL REGIONS; TEMPERATURE DATUMS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 57649095662     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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