In November of 2005 a measurement series was conducted on different kinds of reference objects to compare the results of the FRM-II (ANTARES) and the Budapest (Radiography Station) research reactor in the field of neutron radiography, gamma radiography, classical tomography and discrete tomography by an ANDOR CCD camera and Imaging plate with BAS 2500 Scanner (contributed by AIDA software).

Discrete tomography (DT) is an imaging technique for reconstructing discrete images from their projections using the knowledge that the object to be reconstructed contains only a few homogeneous materials characterized by known discrete absorption values. One of the main reasons for applying DT is that we will hopefully require relatively few projections. Using discreteness and some a priori in...

A programme of examining hydride blisters created in the laboratory on zircaloy pressure tubes and that in the irradiated pressure tube from one of the PHWR , which was suspected to have developed hydride blisters, was undertaken using neutron radiography. It was observed that a zirconium hydride blister of nearly 0.35% of job thickness could be detected using neutron radiography. This work ser...

During the past decades, large-scale national neutron sources were developed in Asia, Europe, and North America. Complementing such efforts, compact hadron beam complexes and neutron sources intended to serve primarily universities and industrial institutes were proposed and some have recently been established. Responding to the demand in China for multidisciplinary fundamental and applied rese...

A LIXI(Light Intensifier X-ray Image) device has been employed in a real-time neutron radiography system. The LIXI is coupled to a video camera and the real-time images can be observed in a TV monitor, and processed in a computer. In order to get the real-time system operational, the neutron radiography facility installed at the IEA-R1m nuclear research reactor of the IPEN-CNEN/SP has been opti...

A few nondestructive examination (NDE) techniques are extensively being used worldwide to investigate aircraft structures for all types of defects. The detection of corrosion and delaminations, which are believed to be the major initiators of defects leading to aircraft structural failures, are addressed by various NDE techniques. In a combined investigation by means of visual inspection, X-ray...