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Prodyot Roy, Bruce E. Bugbee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | July 1978 | Pages 216-218
Technical Note | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32081
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The results obtained from ∼4000 h of operation of an electrochemical oxygen meter developed at General Electric Company for measuring oxygen activities in liquid sodium are described. In the present design, a small ceramic cup (ThO2 with 7 to 8 wt% Y2O3) has been brazed to a metal tube that is inserted into the liquid sodium via a standard sodium flange. The reference electrode used in the present deisgn consists of In/In2O3. Several meters were tested in a flowing sodium system, where the oxygen concentrations were controlled by a cold trap. At 500°C, the oxygen electromotive force (emf) output can be expressed as where T is the cold-trap temperature in K. The temperature coefficient of the meters can be expressed as