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Japan’s TEPCO resumes operations; Monday earthquake triggers response
Commercial operations have resumed at Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced.
Last week’s commercial restart of Unit 6, a 1,315-MWe boiling water reactor, is the first for a TEPCO nuclear facility since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered an accident at the utility’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Gyunyoung Heo
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Detecting Fire with Machine Learning-Enabled Visual Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plant Environments
L. Michael Griffel (INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Roger Boza (INL)
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Sensor Degradation Detection Using Visual Timeseries and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
C. J. Wallace (Univ. of Strathclyde), S.D.J. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
Monitoring of Thermal Mixing Tee Sensors with LSTM Neural Networks
Victoria Ankel (ANL), Stella Pantopoulou (ANL), Matthew Weathered (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Object Detection in a Framework for Automated Nuclear Waste Classification
Seonaid Hume (Univ. of Strathclyde), Gordon Dobie (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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