EP0475806A2 - Laser-Arbeitsgerät, insbesondere für die Reinigung einer Leitung eines Nuclearreaktors - Google Patents

Laser-Arbeitsgerät, insbesondere für die Reinigung einer Leitung eines Nuclearreaktors Download PDF

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EP0475806A2
EP0475806A2 EP91402257A EP91402257A EP0475806A2 EP 0475806 A2 EP0475806 A2 EP 0475806A2 EP 91402257 A EP91402257 A EP 91402257A EP 91402257 A EP91402257 A EP 91402257A EP 0475806 A2 EP0475806 A2 EP 0475806A2
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Jean-Pierre Cartry
Georges Clar
Alain Martin
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21F—PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
    • G21F9/00—Treating radioactively contaminated material; Decontamination arrangements therefor
    • G21F9/001—Decontamination of contaminated objects, apparatus, clothes, food; Preventing contamination thereof
    • G21F9/005—Decontamination of the surface of objects by ablation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/02—Cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes
    • B08B9/027—Cleaning the internal surfaces; Removal of blockages
    • B08B9/04—Cleaning the internal surfaces; Removal of blockages using cleaning devices introduced into and moved along the pipes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B7/00—Cleaning by methods not provided for in a single other subclass or a single group in this subclass
    • B08B7/0035—Cleaning by methods not provided for in a single other subclass or a single group in this subclass by radiant energy, e.g. UV, laser, light beam or the like
    • B08B7/0042—Cleaning by methods not provided for in a single other subclass or a single group in this subclass by radiant energy, e.g. UV, laser, light beam or the like by laser
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
    • B08B9/02—Cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes
    • B08B9/021—Cleaning pipe ends or pipe fittings, e.g. before soldering

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  • the present invention relates to a laser working device intended to send a high power laser beam to work points which are difficult to access. It applies in particular to the decontamination by laser beam of a pipe or the like forming part of the primary water circuit of a steam generator of a nuclear power plant of the pressurized water type, or of the water box of a like steam generator.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an apparatus making it possible to easily transport high laser powers to work points which are difficult to access.
  • the apparatus shown in the drawings is intended to carry out the decontamination of a section of pipe 1 of relatively large diameter belonging to the primary water circuit of a pressurized water nuclear reactor steam generator.
  • it is a bent pipe section.
  • This device essentially consists of a support rail 2, a carriage 3 movable mounted on this rail, a device 4 for producing a high power laser beam, and a device 5 for transporting this beam by airway to the interior wall of section 1.
  • the rail 2 of hexagonal section (Fig. 3), has a curved shape and, in service, its longitudinal axis is coincident with that of the section 1. It has on one side a rectilinear extension 6 provided with a device 7 centering in the pipe section 8 adjacent to the section 1, this device 7 being expandable by means of a jack 9 provided at the end of the extension 6.
  • the rail 2 is extended by an indexer 10 which is a rail section of the same hexagonal section as the rail 2 and which can rotate around its axis in steps of 60 °, by means of a motor not shown housed in the rail.
  • the indexer 10 rotates on a shaft integral with the rail 2 and which carries at its free end the hub 11 of a spider 12, which in turn carries a centering ring 13. by actuation of several jacks 14 mounted radially on this ring, the axis of the rail 2 can be made to coincide with that of the bent section 1 in a sufficiently precise manner.
  • the carriage 3 has a hexagonal section homothetic to that of the rail 2, and between them are interposed on the one hand two pairs of idle rollers 15, on the other hand a pair of drive rollers 16 driven by a geared motor 17.
  • the carriage can thus be brought to any point along the length of the rail 2 or on one of the extensions 6 and 10 thereof.
  • the device 4 for producing the laser beam consists firstly of a laser generator 18 of the YAG pulse type, mounted on a fixed support 19 outside the pipe to be treated and equipped with appropriate supply means, control and cooling, and on the other hand a laser beam amplifier 20 fixed on the carriage 3.
  • the output of the generator 18 is connected to the input of an optical fiber 21 whose output is connected to the amplifier 20 input.
  • the latter is adapted to provide a parallel amplified beam at its output.
  • the optical fiber can be adapted to transport a maximum power of 20 MW, the generator 18 to provide peak power of this order and the amplifier 20 to have an amplification factor of 5, which allows to obtain at the output of this amplifier a laser beam having a peak power of the order of 100MW, suitable for this application.
  • the air transport device 5 comprises a guide tube 21, the base of which (Fig. 2) has a hole 22 for the entry of the amplified laser beam located opposite the output of the amplifier 20.
  • a return mirror 23 inclined at 45 ° is fixed in the guide tube opposite the hole 22.
  • the assembly of the guide tube and the mirror can be driven in an alternating angular movement in a radial plane by a motor 24 carried by the carriage 3.
  • a suction nozzle 25 is slidably mounted at the free end of the guide tube 21 and is pressed against the interior wall of the pipe by a spring 26. The support of this nozzle on the pipe takes place via a floating tubular end piece 27 fitted with rollers.
  • a flexible pipe 28 connects the nozzle 25 to a pump (not shown). If the products sucked up can be discharged into the pipe itself, this pump can be fixed on the carriage 3. Otherwise, it is mounted at a fixed position outside the pipe to be treated.
  • a flexible umbilicus 29 leads to the carriage 3 the optical fiber 21, the electric wires supplying the motors 17 and 24 and the amplifier 20, and possibly pipes (not shown) conveying water for cooling the mirror. and the amplifier and the flexible hose 28.
  • the motor 24 drives the guide tube 21 back and forth so that the end piece 27 moves on the inner wall of the section 1 along an arc of amplitude circle substantially greater than 60 °, and the device 4 for producing the laser beam is switched on.
  • the amplified laser beam strikes the wall after reflection on the mirror 23 and ensures the decontamination of the point of impact and therefore of the entire swept arc.
  • the carriage is advanced on the rail 2 by a step depending on the radius of the focal spot of the laser beam, so that an entire sector of more than 60 ° of the section 1 is decontaminated.
  • the carriage is brought to the indexer 10, and the latter is rotated by 60 °, which brings the carriage 3 into a new angular position, and the decontamination of the following sector of the section 1 is carried out as described above, with overlap from the previous sector.
  • the device can be used regardless of the shape and orientation in the space of the pipe to be treated.
  • the distance between the mirror 23 and the wall of the pipe does not need to be adjusted with great precision.

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EP91402257A 1990-09-12 1991-08-19 Laser-Arbeitsgerät, insbesondere für die Reinigung einer Leitung eines Nuclearreaktors Expired - Lifetime EP0475806B1 (de)

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FR9011281A FR2666523A1 (fr) 1990-09-12 1990-09-12 Appareil de travail au laser, notamment pour la decontamination d'une conduite d'un reacteur nucleaire.
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USRE35981E (en) * 1993-03-16 1998-12-08 Vernay Laboratories, Inc. System for cleaning molding equipment using a laser
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FR2666523A1 (fr) 1992-03-13
KR920006044A (ko) 1992-04-27
FI95878B (fi) 1995-12-29
FI914168A0 (fi) 1991-09-04
US5256848A (en) 1993-10-26
DE69114970T2 (de) 1996-04-18
FI914168A (fi) 1992-03-13
EP0475806B1 (de) 1995-11-29
FI95878C (fi) 1996-04-10
ZA917213B (en) 1993-04-28
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