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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Gonzalo Farias, Ernesto Fabregas, Sebastián Dormido-Canto, Jesús Vega, Sebastián Vergara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 925-932
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1820804
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Anomaly detection addresses the problem of finding unexpected values in data sets. Often, these anomalies, also known as outliers, discordant values, or exceptions, describe patterns in the behavior of the data. Anomaly detection is important because it frequently involves significant and critical information in many application domains. In the case of nuclear fusion, there is a wide variety of anomalies that could be related to plasma behaviors, such as disruptions or low-high (L-H) transitions. In this context, there are known and unknown anomalies, where unknown anomalies represent the largest proportion of the total that can be found in nuclear fusion. This paper presents a study of the application of deep learning and architecture called Autoencoder to detect anomalies predicting (encode-decode) in a discharge.