Long-term radiation effects on fibre Bragg grating temperature sensors in a low flux nuclear reactor

A. Fernandez Fernandez; A. Gusarov; B. Brichard; M. Decréton; F. Berghmans; P. Mégret; A. Delchambre

doi:10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/013

Long-term radiation effects on fibre Bragg grating temperature sensors in a low flux nuclear reactor

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Abstract

Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) temperature sensors have already shown short-term radiation tolerance in nuclear environments. However, the effect of long-term irradiation needed to be investigated. We therefore characterized multiplexed FBG temperature sensors inserted early 2000 in an irradiation channel of a low flux nuclear reactor. After 50 months, we show that the sensors still operate satisfactorily and that the measured drift is lower than 3 °C.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1506-1511
Number of pages	6
Journal	Measurement Science and Technology
Volume	15
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/013
State	Published - Aug 2004

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Instrumentation
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Applied Mathematics

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