Ensuring the safety of nuclear reactors and their high exploitation reliability requires a 100 % noncontact precise inspection of geometrical parameters of their fuel elements, grid spacers and quality of fuel element surface. For the solution of these 3D inspection tasks we have developed and produced a laser measuring machine (LMM) using multipoint structured illumination, optoelectronic shadow systems as Control and optical low-coherent profilometer as Radar. The results of their industrial testing are presented and discussed.

Safety increasing of nuclear reactors is urgent problem for atomic industry. It takes 100% noncontact dimensional inspection of nuclear reactor components. Optoelectronic methods and systems for 3D inspection of fuel assembly elements, including spacer grids and fuel elements, are presented. The universal structured light method for 3D inspection of Russian and western grid spacers using diffraction elements is developed. For fuel elements inspection one considers the shadow method which allows one to implement full inspection of articles under transported along the automatic production line. TDI SIE has developed the commercial version of systems for integral inspection of spacer grids and fuel elements. The experimental results of industrial testing are given.

The method of laser Doppler visualization and measurement of 2D velocity vector field in flows with minimization of influence of a multi–particle scattering is discussed. The investigated section in the flow is illuminated with a laser sheet. Our approach is based on reception of a pair wise difference of normalized frequency–demodulated images of a laser sheet in light beams scattered in various directions. The 2D velocities field is formed from linear combinations of images of the laser sheet in frequency–demodulated light scattered in directions orthogonal to it.