19–23 Jun 2023
Hofburg Palace & Online
Europe/Vienna timezone

Feedback on SPALAX New Generation Operation

P4.4-736
21 Jun 2023, 09:00
1h
Wintergarten

Wintergarten

Board: 57
E-poster T4.4 International Monitoring System Sustainment Lightning talks: P2.1, P2.3, P4.4

Speaker

Ms Axelle Gourgues (Cegelec Defense)

Description

In the context of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the CEA/DAM developed the Système de Prélèvement Automatique en Ligne avec l'Analyse du Xénon (SPALAX) about 20 years ago which is used in the International Monitoring System to detect xenon releases following a nuclear explosion. The New Generation of the system has been successfully developed by the CEA and CEGELEC Défense. CEGELEC commissioned several SPALAX New Generation at CEA premises. These were evaluated in France for several months before moving to operations. It is reliable and good results have been observed. New people have been trained on the system and can now operate it. CEGELEC will describe latest evolutions to the system following users lessons learned and provide feedback on the system operation.

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The SPALAX New Generation has been successfully developed by the CEA and CEGELEC Défense. CEGELEC commissioned several SPALAX New Generation at CEA premises. These were evaluated in France for several months before moving to operations.

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Primary author

Ms Axelle Gourgues (Cegelec Defense)

Co-authors

Mr Florian Philippe (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)) Mr Frederic Tribet (Cegelec Defense) Mr Gabriel Couchaux (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)) Mr Henri Chevreul (Cegelec Defense) Sylvain Topin (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)) Mr Thomas Philippe (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA))

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