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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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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Article considers incorporation of AI into nuclear power plant operations
The potential application of artificial intelligence to the operation of nuclear power plants is explored in an article published in late December in the Washington Examiner. The article, written by energy and environment reporter Callie Patteson, presents the views of a number of experts, including Yavuz Arik, a strategic energy consultant.
Rikard Malmbeck, Gunnar Skarnemark
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 1 | October 1997 | Pages 48-56
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35430
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Characterization of iodine on-line using mixersettlers has been performed in reactor water, reactor water cleanup (RWCU) effluent, and condensate at the three boiling water reactor (BWR) nuclear power plants (F1, F2, and F3) at Forsmark, Sweden. Characterization of reactor water iodine has also been performed following reactor shutdown at F3. The dominating species in reactor water and condensate was iodide; the rest being essentially iodate. In RWCU effluent, the major species was iodate. Iodine isotopic ratios showed that iodate was delayed when passing the RWCU system. Formation of organic iodides in the RWCU system was not significant. No changes in the iodine species composition in the reactor water could be observed directly following reactor shutdown; however, iodide was with time slowly converted to iodate by radiation-induced oxidation. In reactor water <1% and in condensate and RWCU effluent up to 3% of the total iodine existed in the organic form. Organic iodides in the condensate were older than other iodine species.