Radiation shielding method and device, and method of processing structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9460820-B2
Application number	US-201214003186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2012
Priority date	Jun 17, 2011
Publication date	Oct 4, 2016
Grant date	Oct 4, 2016

Abstract

A radiation shielding method and a device, and a method of processing a structure, in which a first radiation-shielded region (A 1 ) is provided by disposing a first radiation-shielding device ( 100 ) outside a nuclear reactor vessel ( 41 ), a neutron flux detector ( 77 ) is moved into the radiation-shielded region (A 1 ) through a conduit tube ( 65 ) by moving a thimble tube ( 68 ) from the nuclear reactor vessel ( 41 ), and an inspection/repair work of the nuclear reactor vessel ( 41 ) is then performed, so that an amount of radiation delivered to a worker can be easily and sufficiently reduced.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radiation shielding method of shielding a body to be shielded arranged inside a nuclear reactor vessel, the method comprising:
providing a radiation-shielded region outside the nuclear reactor vessel; and
moving the body to be shielded into the radiation-shielded region from the nuclear reactor vessel,
wherein the providing includes providing a first radiation-shielded region on a wall surface of a cavity outside the nuclear reactor vessel and providing a second radiation-shielded region that surrounds a lower side of the nuclear reactor vessel,
wherein the providing the first radiation-shielded region includes disposing a first vessel constituting a vertical wall of the first radiation-shielded region and a second vessel constituting a roof of the first radiation-shielded region,
wherein the providing the second radiation-shielded region includes arranging a plurality of third vessels each having a shape in which a lower part is gradually increased in thickness to fill a gap between a cylindrical part of a concrete structure and the nuclear reactor vessel, closely side by side outside the nuclear reactor vessel along a circumferential direction, and arranging a plurality of fourth vessels each having a rod-shape to fill a gap between the nuclear reactor vessel and a support table supported by the concrete structure, closely side by side at the lower side of the nuclear reactor vessel to form a circle, and
the providing includes filling the first vessel with a plurality of shielding material filled jackets which are pouch-shape vessels whose shapes are changeable, and the plurality of shielding material filled jackets are filled with a plurality of granular shielding materials,
wherein the disposing the first vessel includes disposing two vertical plates at a certain distance in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of a plurality of conduit tubes, and forming a plurality of penetrating grooves opening upward along an up and down direction and aligned in a right and left direction through which the plurality of conduit tubes pass through in the respective vertical plates, and
the filling the first vessel with a plurality of shielding material filled jackets includes providing the plurality of shielding material filled jackets between the two vertical plates.

2. The radiation shielding method according to claim 1 , wherein the nuclear reactor vessel and the first radiation-shielded region are coupled with a curved pipe, and the body to be shielded is moved into the first radiation-shielded region from the nuclear reactor vessel through the pipe.

3. The radiation shielding method according to claim 1 , wherein the first radiation-shielded region is constructed by supplying the plurality of granular shielding materials to the second vessel along with a fluid.

4. A method of processing a nuclear reactor vessel, comprising
the radiation shielding method of claim 1 ; and
processing a part to be processed of the nuclear reactor vessel after the body to be shielded is taken out of the nuclear reactor vessel.

5. The method of processing a nuclear reactor vessel according to claim 4 , wherein the nuclear reactor vessel and the first radiation-shielded region are coupled with a curved pipe, and after the body to be shielded is moved into the radiation-shielded region from the nuclear reactor vessel through the pipe, an inspection/repair work of the pipe is performed.

6. A radiation-shielding device comprising:
a first radiation-shielding device that provides a first radiation-shielded region on a wall surface of a cavity outside the nuclear reactor vessel and;
a second radiation-shielding device that provides a second radiation-shielded region that surrounds a lower side of the nuclear reactor vessel,
wherein the first radiation-shielding device includes a first vessel constituting a vertical wall of a first radiation-shielded region and a second vessel constituting a roof of the first radiation-shielded region,
wherein the second radiation-shielding device includes a plurality of third vessels each having a shape in which a lower part is gradually increased in thickness to fill a gap between a cylindrical part of a concrete structure and the nuclear reactor vessel and arranged closely side by side outside the nuclear reactor vessel along a circumferential direction, and a plurality of fourth vessels each having a rod-shape to fill a gap between the nuclear reactor vessel and a support table supported by the concrete structure and arranged closely side by side at the lower side of the nuclear reactor vessel to form a circle, and
the first vessel having a plurality of shielding material filled jackets which are pouch-shape vessels whose shapes are changeable, and the plurality of shielding material filled jackets including a plurality of granular shielding materials,
wherein the first vessel includes two vertical plates disposed at a certain distance in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of a plurality of conduit tubes,
wherein the two vertical plates respectively having a plurality of penetrating grooves opening upward along an up and down direction and aligned in a right and left direction through which the plurality of conduit tubes pass through, and
the plurality of shielding material filled jackets is provided between the two vertical plates.

7. The radiation-shielding device according to claim 6 , wherein a plurality of pipes penetrating the first and second radiation-shielded regions and guiding the body to be shielded is provided, and a penetrating groove penetrated by the plurality of pipes is formed in the plurality of vertical plates.

8. The radiation-shielding device according to claim 6 , wherein the second vessel is filled with the plurality of granular shielding materials.

Assignees

• Shimazu Yukihide
• Mizuma Hiroyuki
• Yasumoto Kazuhiro
• Hori Nobuyuki
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Shimazu Yukihide
• Mizuma Hiroyuki
• Yasumoto Kazuhiro
• Hori Nobuyuki

Classifications

• G21C17/108

  Measuring reactor flux · CPC title

• G21C11/02

  Biological shielding (in general G21F ){; Neutron or gamma shielding} · CPC title

• G21F3/00 Primary

  Shielding characterised by its physical form, e.g. granules, or shape of the material · CPC title

• Y02E30/40

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G21F3/04

  Bricks; Shields made up therefrom · CPC title