| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 42, 2018
ASTECHNOVA 2016 International Energy Conference
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 01015 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184201015 | |
| Published online | 29 June 2018 | |
Development of Fuel Debris Inspection Methods using Air-Coupled Ultrasound
1
Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo,
Japan
2
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding (TEPCO) Yokohama, Japan
Japan has decided to start fuel debris removal on 2021. Therefore, before starting retrieval of the fuel debris, investigation of location, shape, and also properties of fuel debris have to be performed. In this study, air-coupled ultrasound technique had been developed in order to visualize of fuel debris. Firstly, simulated fuel debris was represented by stone and experiment was done in laboratory scale. Flat and focused air-coupled ultrasound were used as a sensor to get echo signals of the target surface. Results showed that both flat and focused sensor successfully reconstructed the flat surface image in good spatial resolution. However, flat air-coupled transducer shown unstructured. On the other hand, focused air-coupled ultrasound shown good performance when target surface was unstructured. Therefore, it was recommended to used focused sensor when target surface was unstructured like simulated fuel debris.
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