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Determination of the rod-wise fission gas release fraction in a complete fuel assembly using non-destructive gamma emission tomography

Holcombe et al., 2016

Document ID
12676859719233116145
Author
Holcombe S
Andersson P
Svärd S
Hallstadius L
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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A gamma tomography instrument has been developed at the Halden Boiling Water Reactor (HBWR) in cooperation between the Institute for Energy Technology, Westinghouse (Sweden) and Uppsala University. The instrument is used to record the gamma radiation …
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