Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021

Full Issue

Politics and Isotopes: 10 Years After Fukushima and the Politics of Tritium

Paul T. Dickman (ANL)

Transition from Nuclear Operations to Decommissioning Safety Culture

Lynne S. Goodman (Marathon Consulting Group), Philip Chase (Marathon Consulting Group)

Development of an Integrated Decommissioning Cost Estimate Method

Gerald E. Williams (Enercon Services), Charles Beatty (Enercon Services), Michael Snyder (Enercon Services)

Analysing Human Operators and an Automated System in Swabbing Tasks

Thomas Johnson (Univ. of Manchester), Simon Watson (Univ. of Manchester), Clint Sharrad (Univ. of Manchester), Thomas Carey (National Nuclear Laboratory)

Effect of pH and Silicon Concentration on the Competitive Incorporation of Iodine and Chromate into Calcium Carbonate Phases.

Y.P. Katsenovich (Florida International Univ.), R. Gudavalli (Florida International Univ.), L. Lagos (Florida International Univ.)

Artificial Intelligence Based Analytics to Support Environmental Remote Monitoring

Masudur R. Siddiquee (Florida International Univ.), Santosh Joshi (Florida International Univ.), Himanshu Upadhyay (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)

Underwater Laser Cutting Studies in KAERI for Dismantling Nuclear Facilities

Jae Sung Shin (KAERI), Seong Y. Oh (KAERI), Sungmo Nam (KAERI), Sung Hoon Baik (KAERI), Sungok Kwon (KAERI), Taek-Soo Kim (KAERI), Seung-Kyu Park (KAERI), Hyunmin Park (KAERI), Jonghwan Lee (KAERI)

Development of ICT-Based Remote Dismantling System by the Virtual Operation Technology for Kori Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant

Dae-Won Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Jeong Suh (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Seokyoung Ahn (Pusan National Univ.), Min Cheol Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Yong Soo Kim (Hanyang Univ.), Nam Kyun Kim (KEPCO KPS), Jae-Sug Ki (Sangmyung Univ.)

Crack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network Deployed on Mobile Platform

Roger Boza (Florida International Univ.), Santosh Joshi (Florida International Univ.), Himanshu Upadhyay (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)

We Can Weld Shut Spent Fuel Container Lid, Next to Fuel Pellets Safely

Paul Cheng (Univ. of Alberta)

The Maximum Temperature of Heat-generating Glass Waste Canisters in Repository

Minsuk Seo (Penn. State Univ.)

TRM-Transportation of Liquid Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)

G. L. Jackson (Savannah River National Laboratory), J.J. Galan (Savannah River National Laboratory)

Design of a Miniature Rover for the Inspection of High-Level Waste Double-Shell Tanks

Shervin Tashakori (Florida International Univ.), Daniel Martin (Florida International Univ.), Sebastian Story (Florida International Univ.), Mackenson Telusma (Florida International Univ.), Anthony Abrahao (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)

Robotic Inspection System Using Guided Wave Technology for Nuclear Waste Storage Tanks

Victoria Wahlen (Southwest Research Institute), Glynn Bartlett (Southwest Research Institute), Adam Cobb (Southwest Research Institute)

Development of a Marsupial Robotic Crawler for the Inspection of High-Level Waste Double-Shell Tank Secondary Liners

Anthony Abrahao (Florida International Univ.), Josue Estrada (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.)

Development of an Omni-Directional Wall Coating Platform Using Thrust-Based Adhesion Mechanism at H-Canyon Exhaust Tunnel

Mackenson Telusma (Florida International Univ.), Jeff Natividad (Florida International Univ.), Dwayne McDaniel (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)

Experiment Design for a Computed Tomography Automation Architecture

Nicholas Hashem (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Mitch Pryor (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Derek Haas (Univ. of Texas, Austin), James Hunter (LANL), Michelle Espy (LANL)

Control of a Robotic Manipulator for Collaborative Precision Insertion Tasks

Mark Jennings (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Mitch Pryor (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Equipment Development for Processing Target Residual Material at SRS

Michael J. Dalmaso (Savannah River National Laboratory), Joel D. Jones (Savannah River National Laboratory), Bill Giddings (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)

Arc Saw Segmentation of Nuclear Components

Thomas S. LaGuardia (Arc Saw Technologies), Richard E. Simoneau (Arc Saw Technologies)

The Continuous Detection of Alpha Radiation Using Mobile Robotic Platform

Caleb Hatler (LANL), Alex von Sternberg (LANL), Brian O'Neil (LANL)

EPRI Demonstration of an Autonomous Site Characterization/FSS Vehicle

Richard McGrath (EPRI), Richard Reid (EPRI)

RAMM-TM for Detection of Gas Leakage from Canisters

Y. Y. Liu (ANL), H. Takeda (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)

Multi-Agent-Based Wall-Climbing Robot System for Safety Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant

Young-woon Song (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Jungill Kang (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Taesik Kim (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Son-Cheol Yu (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology)

Development of an In-Water Light-Duty Robot for Use in the Decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants

Shinji Kawatsuma (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College), Shigekazu Suzuki (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College)

MATLAB-Based 3D Virtual Manipulator Simulator for Remote Dismantling of Nuclear Reactor

Hamza Khan (Pusan National Univ.), Jin Won Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Min Cheol Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Seokyoung Ahn (Pusan National Univ.), Suh Jeong (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Dae-Won Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)

Preliminary Study on Point Cloud-Based Object Pose Estimation in Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning Applications

Sungmoon Joo (KAERI), Hogeon Seo (KAERI)

A Cooperative Unmanned Disaster Responding System at KAERI

Dongseok Ryu (KAERI), Youngsoo Choi (KAERI)

A2I2: Autonomous Aquatic Inspection and Intervention in Nuclear Storage Ponds

Simon Watson (Univ. of Manchester), Gary Cross (Rovco), Peter Green (Univ. of Manchester), John Parsons (Thales UK), Peter Routledge (Forth Engineering), Nick Tudor (D-RisQ), Terry Wood (National Oceanographic Centre)

The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear (RAIN) Hub

Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester), Guy Burroughes (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)

TORONE: Materials Characterisation Robot for Nuclear Inspection

Andrew West (Univ. of Manchester), Ioannis Tsitsimpelis (Lancaster Univ.), Paul Coffey (Univ. of Manchester), Michael Aspinall (Lancaster Univ.), Nick T. Smith (Univ. of Manchester), Philip A. Martin (Univ. of Manchester), Malcolm J. Joyce (Lancaster Univ.), Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester)

Image Stitching and Illumination Correction for Metallic Multi-Purpose Canister Visual Inspection Data

Michael Devereux (Univ. of Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)

HADRON: Hazard Aware Digitalization and Robotics in Nuclear and Other Domains

István Szőke (Institute for Energy Technology), Réka Szőke (Institute for Energy Technology), Tom-Robert Bryntesen (Institute for Energy Technology), Lucas Stephane (Institute for Energy Technology)

ROS Messages for Nuclear Sensing

Andrew West (Univ. of Manchester), Alex Smith (Bristol Robotics Laboratory)

Mixed-Reality Digital Twin Platform for Enhanced Remote Operation Based on Robot Operating System (ROS)

Young Soo Park (ANL), Jonathan Bayert (ANL), Sungmoon Joo (KAERI), JongHwan Lee (KAERI)

Self-Exploration and Mapping for Indoor Robotic Applications

Adrian Abeyta (Univ. of Texas at Austin), Mitch Pryor (Univ. of Texas at Austin), Sheldon Landsberger (Univ. of Texas at Austin)