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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Gyunyoung Heo
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Detecting Fire with Machine Learning-Enabled Visual Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plant Environments
L. Michael Griffel (INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Roger Boza (INL)
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Sensor Degradation Detection Using Visual Timeseries and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
C. J. Wallace (Univ. of Strathclyde), S.D.J. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
Monitoring of Thermal Mixing Tee Sensors with LSTM Neural Networks
Victoria Ankel (ANL), Stella Pantopoulou (ANL), Matthew Weathered (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Object Detection in a Framework for Automated Nuclear Waste Classification
Seonaid Hume (Univ. of Strathclyde), Gordon Dobie (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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