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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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)
Paper
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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