DESCRIPTION
Canadian Nuclear Labs tasked us with building a safe and precise method to take a 30-80 mg sample of metal from CANDU reactor fuel tubes to analyze their hydrogen and deuterium concentrations because high concentrations cause embrittlement, threatening tube integrity and reactor safety.
Our solution is a fully modular, cylindrical collection system that utilizes a rotating razor blade to scrape off the metal debris within the fuel tubes. The overall cost of the prototype was 71.23$, with a total 100$ budget.
Some significant issues we encountered when creating our prototype were figuring out the overall modularity of the system alongside the wiring of our electrical components and finding a proper power supply that wasn't underpowered/overpowered (which caused stuttering).
Our solution is a fully modular, cylindrical collection system that utilizes a rotating razor blade to scrape off the metal debris within the fuel tubes. The overall cost of the prototype was 71.23$, with a total 100$ budget.
Some significant issues we encountered when creating our prototype were figuring out the overall modularity of the system alongside the wiring of our electrical components and finding a proper power supply that wasn't underpowered/overpowered (which caused stuttering).
GNG1103-F18-Metal Tube Scraping Tool
PUBLISHED ON
Mar 14 2025
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Deliverable_E.docx.pdf703 KB
Deliverable_F.docx.pdf259 KB
Deliverable_G.docx.pdf679 KB
GUI.c2 KB
Arduino_Codev41 KB
CATEGORIES
GNG1103/GNG1503
LICENSE
Creative Commons - Attribution
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