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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ of Texas at San Antonio)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1691-1697
In this work a new methodology for monitoring reactor systems is introduced and its application on pressurized water reactor (PWR) data is presented. The methodology implements a synergistic framework of various relevance vector machines and fuzzy inference. The goal of the framework is to fuse the sensor readings and provide them in a solid form to the operator: this solid form is identified as the state of the reactor. Initially, each of the relevance vector machines fuses the data taken from a specific set of sensors, which have been assigned to it. In the next step, the fused data in the form of a nominal value are forwarded to a fuzzy inference system that takes the values of all the relevance vector machines and further fuses the data by providing a single value that matches the state of the reactor. This proposed methodology is applied on a set of real-world data taken from the LOFT Facility, which is a setup to simulate a pressurized water reactor. Results demonstrate the efficiency of the method in identifying the correct reactor state, while reducing the volume of processing data.