Advancing Reactor Efficiency: Photonis In-Core Fission Chambers
At the heart of cutting-edge reactor technology, Photonis, part of Exosens, presents in-core fission chambers designed to elevate performance in demanding environments. Photonis’s commitment to excellence is evident as these chambers are engineered to operate seamlessly at temperatures up to 600 °C. These components are tailored to the specific needs of diverse reactor types.
Why choose Photonis for in-core applications?
- Precision Monitoring: Fission chambers, the linchpin for reactor neutron flux monitoring, offer unparalleled precision.
- Comprehensive Functionality: From detecting thermal neutrons in high flux to monitoring fuel burn-up, these chambers play a vital role in controlling power across source, intermediate, and power ranges.
- Adaptive Modes: Gas-filled neutron detectors, in watertight stainless steel structures, operate in pulse, fluctuation (Campbell), and current modes, providing versatile analytical capabilities, according to the user’s needs
- Radiation Resilience: Fission chambers, filled with specialized gas, demonstrate exceptional radiation resistance, ensuring reliability in challenging environments.
In a groundbreaking move, Photonis’s in-core fission chambers are designed to be movable within, or withdrawn from, the reactor core during operation, allowing for extended life and dynamic measurements for calibration and research. Explore the possibilities with the 1.5-mm external diameter subminiature chambers, enabling measurements close to the physical phenomenon.
About Photonis
Photonis, a brand of Exosens, produces electro-optic components used in the detection and amplification of ions, electrons and photons. The company designs and manufactures in facilities across the globe and works with customers to continually improve and innovate their products. Photonis innovates and engineers quality components for integration into a variety of applications such as night vision optics, digital cameras, mass spectrometry, physics research, space exploration and many others. The company produces the most widely deployed night vision tube globally, leads the mass spectrometer detector market, and has products installed in most space telescopes and high energy physics experiments in laboratories around the world.
Scientific and industrial detectors from Photonis include:
- Ion and electron detectors (for scientific instruments and mass spectrometry)
- Single photon detectors (image intensifiers and photon multipliers)
- Micropore optics detectors (for x-ray imaging)
- Neutron detectors (for non-destructive testing and neutron tomography)
- Nuclear instrumentation (gamma detectors, neutron detectors, mineral-insulated extensions)
Imaging products from Photonis include:
To request more information or a quotation for Photonis products, contact IL Photonics.