Long-term temperature monitoring in a low flux nuclear reactor using fiber Bragg grating sensors

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  • A. Fernandez Fernandez
  • A. Gusarov
  • F. Berghmans
چکیده

Multiplexed FBG temperature sensors are used to measure a temperature profile inside an irradiation channel of a low flux nuclear reactor. After 40 months, we show that the sensors still operate satisfactorily. The measured drift is lower than 3 ◦C.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004