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April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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ARG-US Remote Monitoring Systems: Use Cases and Applications in Nuclear Facilities and During Transportation
As highlighted in the Spring 2024 issue of Radwaste Solutions, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing and deploying ARG-US—meaning “Watchful Guardian”—remote monitoring systems technologies to enhance the safety, security, and safeguards (3S) of packages of nuclear and other radioactive material during storage, transportation, and disposal.
Zachary K. Hardy, Jim E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 4 | April 2024 | Pages 832-852
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2218581
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, a non-intrusive reduced-order model (ROM) for parametric reactor kinetics simulations is presented. Time-dependent ROMs are notoriously data intensive and difficult to implement when nonlinear multiphysics phenomena are considered. These challenges are exacerbated when parametric dependencies are included. The proper orthogonal decomposition mode coefficient interpolation (POD-MCI) ROM presented in this work can be constructed directly from lower-dimensional full-order model (FOM) outputs and is independent of the underlying model. This greatly alleviates the data requirement of many existing ROMs and can be used without modification on arbitrarily complex models or experimental data. The POD-MCI ROM is demonstrated on a number of examples and yields accurate characterizations of the parametric behaviors of both FOM outputs and derived quantities of interest within the selected parameter spaces, at extremely attractive computational speedup factors relative to FOMs.