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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Kathy Murdoch (ANS)
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Nuclear Power Fault Diagnostics and Preventative Maintenance Optimization
Cody Walker (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Nancy Lybeck (INL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Mike Taylor (EPRI)
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Exelon-Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant Risk-Informed Surveillance Frequency Control Program Implementation for Instrumentation and Control Systems
Karim Habayeb (James A. Fitzpatrick NPP), Jeremy Torrez (James A. Fitzpatrick NPP), Andrew Bratek (James A. Fitzpatrick NPP), David Poulin (James A. Fitzpatrick NPP), Anthony Yost (James A. Fitzpatrick NPP), Edward L. (Ted) Quinn (Technology Resources)
Approach to Crediting Self-Diagnostic Features of Digital Instrumentation and Control to Achieve Technical Specifications Surveillance Test Interval Extension
Garill Coles (PNNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Edward (Ted) Quinn (Technical Resources), Ron Jarrett (Technical Resources), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Topical Report on Implementation of Online Monitoring to Extend Calibration Intervals of Pressure Transmitters
H.M. Hashemian (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), G. W. Morton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), B. D. Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), M.J. Burzynski (NewClear Day, Inc.), R. Olson (Southern Nuclear Operating Co.)
Interactive P&IDS as a Digitalization Experience in Main Control Room and Engineering
Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom), Javier Barroso (Tecnatom), Javier Gil (Tecnatom)
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