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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|12:15–2:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Richard T. Wood (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (ANS)
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Development of an In-Pile Facility to Demonstrate Autonomous Control of a Subcritical System
Jarod Wilson (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Bren Phillips (MIT), Akshay J. Dave (MIT)
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Development of a Virtual System in Support of Demonstrating Autonomous Control of a Subcritical Facility
Jiankai Yu (MIT), Jarod C. Wilson (MIT), Bren A. Phillips (MIT), Akshay J. Dave (MIT)
Developments in Online Monitoring Technologies for Autonomous Microreactor Operations
A. H. Hashemian (AMS), B. D. Shumaker (AMS), T.S. Gavin (AMS), R.A. Kettle (AMS), W. H. Ferrell (AMS)
Route Operable Unmanned Navigation of Drones (ROUNDS)
Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Mike Griffel (INL), Roger Boza (INL)
Leveraging Distributed Control Systems to Achieve Greater Functionality in Nuclear Power Plants
Joey Carman (Enercon Services), Cory Carmin (Enercon Services)
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