Light-Sensitive Monitor for Measuring Reactor Output
Project is limited to 5 teams!!!

  1. The nuclear reactor on NCSU campus generates blue light called Cerenkov Radiation while it operates at power levels greater than about 100 kW. The intensity of light is thought to be approximately proportional to the power level and therefore it should be possible to develop a sensor of this light and correlate the light intensity to the reactor power. If it works it ought to provide a simple power monitoring system for the NCSU reactor.
  2. You are to design and test a light detection system that operates in the Blue spectrum, extract a suitable signal from this device, install it on the PULSTAR nuclear reactor and test its capabilities with regard to tracking the reactor power level. Instruction about the reactor and the optical and electronic aspects of the design will be provided.
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