Remote Visual Inspection Of Nuclear Fuel Pellets With Fiber Optics And Video Image Processing

Frank W. Moore

doi:10.1117/12.966271

19 December 1985 Remote Visual Inspection Of Nuclear Fuel Pellets With Fiber Optics And Video Image Processing

Frank W. Moore

Proceedings Volume 0557, Automatic Inspection and Measurement; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966271
Event: 29th Annual Technical Symposium, 1985, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Westinghouse Hanford Company has designed and is constructing a nuclear fuel fabrication process line for the Department of Energy. This process line includes a pellet surface inspection system that remotely inspects the cylindrical surface of nuclear fuel pellets for surface spots, flaws, or discoloration. The pellets are inspected on a 100 percent basis after pellet sintering. A feeder will deliver the pellets directly to a fiber optic inspection head. The inspection head will view one pellet surface at a time. The surface image of the pellet will be imaged to a closed-circuit color television camera (CCTV). The output signal of the CCTV will be input to a digital imaging processor that stores approximately 25 pellet images at a time. A human operator will visually examine the images of the pellet surfaces on a high resolution monitor and accept or reject the pellets based on visual standards. The operator will use a digitizing tablet to record the location of rejected pellets, which will then be automatically removed from the product stream. The system is expandable to automated disposition of the pellet surface image.

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Frank W. Moore "Remote Visual Inspection Of Nuclear Fuel Pellets With Fiber Optics And Video Image Processing", Proc. SPIE 0557, Automatic Inspection and Measurement, (19 December 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966271

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