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Reactor Physics
The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
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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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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Jeeyea Ahn, Junyong Bae, Seung Jun Lee (UNIST)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 115-121
The most significant factor in nuclear power plant operations is safety. A lot of people in the nuclear industry have continued their unremitting efforts. After Three Miles Island accident, human factors came out into the open that it greatly contributes to the course of the accident of nuclear power plants. Thus, a lot of efforts have been made to reduce the human factor error. As nuclear power plant design developed, a new type of digitalized main control rooms has appeared, the conventional paper-based procedures have been left behind as backup. In advanced main control rooms (MCRs), computerized procedure system (CPS) is used to support human operators. Applying computer-based procedures in the main control room allows to reduce mental workload, enhance situation awareness, and produce lower errors of omission than paper-based procedure. However, current CPS does not yet utilize artificial intelligence technology. In order to reduce human errors, the framework which detects unsafe acts of human operators is suggested. The unsafe acts (UAs) detecting system implements Coloured Petri Nets, and deep neural networks to determine if an operating action is an error. The system uses two steps of filters to discover the effect of an operating action on the plant integrity.