Technology Gap Analysis on Sodium-Heated Steam Generators Supporting Advanced Burner Reactor Development

Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Farmer, M. T.; Grandy, C.

doi:10.13182/nt08-a4035

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“…Recent steam generator studies show that major steam generator design options are straight and helical-coil tube types. 12) In the straight tube type, situations are similar to those in Fig. 10.…”

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Acoustic Leak Detection System for Sodium-Cooled Reactor Steam Generators Using Delay-and-Sum Beamformer

Chikazawa

2010

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

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A new acoustic leak detection system for sodium-cooled reactor steam generators using a delay-andsum beamformer is proposed. The major advantage of the delay-and-sum beamformer is that it could provide information on the acoustic source direction. An acoustic source of a sodium-water reaction is supposed to be localized, while the background noise of the steam generator operation is uniformly distributed in the steam generator tube region. Therefore, the delay-and-sum beamformer could distinguish the acoustic source of the sodium-water reaction from the steam generator background noise. In this paper, results of numerical analyses are provided to show the fundamental feasibility of the new method.

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