DEVICE FOR READING SERIAL NUMBERS OF FUEL ASSEMBLIES Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G21C17/06 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: device contains the first housing with through holes for passage of fuel assemblies (FA), around which illuminators are equally installed. Mirrors receiving the optical radiation reflected from fragments of side FA surface and installed with various turning angles of images provide uniform transfer of reflected mirror images to the plane of openings. The second housing with openings, which is located at some distance from the first one, is provided with radiation protection. Inside housing there arranged are video cameras consisting of video matrixes and objectives, and mirror labyrinths formed with inlet mirrors and outlet mirrors. Inlet mirrors are oriented towards outlet openings, and outlet mirrors - towards the objectives. External image control and processing unit is taken to clean room and connected to video cameras through cable communication lines. Invention is aimed at increasing radiation protection of video cameras owing to their possibility of being compactly arranged in remote housing.

EFFECT: radiation protective material and mirror labyrinths in the second housing provide additional radiation protection of video cameras.

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