Mock-up tests of rail-mounted vehicle type in-vessel transporter/manipulator

Author

Oka, K. ; Kakaudate, S. ; Fukatsu, S. ; Nakahira, M. ; Taguchi, K. ; Horie, M. ; Tada, E. ; Shimamoto, S. ; Kondoh, M. ; Shibanuma, K. ; Haange, R.

Author_Institution

Naka Fusion Res. Establ., JAERI, Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

30 Sep-5 Oct 1995

Firstpage

224

Abstract

A rail-mounted vehicle system has been developed for remote maintenance of in-vessel components for fusion experimental reactor. In this system, a rail deploying/storing system is installed at outside of the reactor core and used to deploy a rail transporter and vehicle/manipulator for the in-vessel maintenance. A prototype of the rail deploying/storing system has been fabricated for mockup tests. This paper describes structural design of the prototypical rail deploying/storing system and results of the performance tests such as payload capacity, position control and rail deployment/storage performance

Keywords

fusion reactor instrumentation; fusion reactor safety; nuclear reactor maintenance; fusion experimental reactor; in-vessel maintenance; mock-up tests; payload capacity; position control; rail deploying/storing system; rail transporter; rail-mounted vehicle type in-vessel transporter/manipulator; remote maintenance; structural design; vehicle/manipulator; Design engineering; Inductors; Payloads; Position control; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Rails; Railway engineering; System testing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 1995. SOFE '95. Seeking a New Energy Era., 16th IEEE/NPSS Symposium

Conference_Location

Champaign, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2969-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.1995.534208

Filename

534208