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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Arvind Sundaram, Yeni Li, Hany Abdel-Khalik
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 9 | September 2022 | Pages 1365-1381
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2027147
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The widespread digitization of critical industrial systems such as nuclear reactors has led to the development of digital twins and/or the adoption of artificial intelligence techniques for simulating baseline behavior and performing predictive maintenance. Such analytical tools, referred to as anomaly detection techniques, rely on features extracted from data that describe the underlying physical process. While these anomaly detection systems may work well with simulated data, their real-world applications are often hindered by the presence of noise. In some cases, noise may obscure subtle anomalies that may carry information about incipient stages of system faults. These subtle variations may also be the result of malicious intrusion such as so-called false data injection attack, equipment degradation causing sensor drift, or other natural disturbances in the process or the sensors. Consequently, there is a need to extract features that are robust to noise and also denoise data in a manner that aids machine-learning (ML) tools in diagnostics. In this regard, this paper presents a singular value decomposition–based statistical data–driven approach for feature extraction, denoted by randomized window decomposition, to capture the underlying physics of the system. Additionally, the features are used to denoise data to reveal subtle anomalies while also preserving relevant information for ML algorithms. The denoising algorithm is demonstrated using a RELAP5 simulation of a representative nuclear reactor with virtual noise.