Thermoelectric powered wireless sensors for spent fuel monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 4 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1408-1413

  Carstens, Thomas A ^a   Corradini, Michael L ^a   Blanchard, James P ^a   Ma, Zhenqiang ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry cask; spent fuel; thermoelectric generator; wireless transmission

Indexed keywords

DECAY HEAT; DRY CASK; ENGINEERING EQUATION SOLVERS; FINITE ELEMENT; FUEL MONITORING; PATH LOSS; POWER REQUIREMENT; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; TRANSMISSION POWER; TRANSMIT DATA; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SIGNALS; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

FUEL STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SENSORS; SERVICE LIFE; SPENT FUELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

THERMOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84865363030     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2187680     Document Type: Article

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