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Robotics & Remote Systems
The Mission of the Robotics and Remote Systems Division is to promote the development and application of immersive simulation, robotics, and remote systems for hazardous environments for the purpose of reducing hazardous exposure to individuals, reducing environmental hazards and reducing the cost of performing work.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Redondo
Session Chair:
Nadish Saini
Alternate Chair:
Yue Jin
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
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Embedded Fiber Optic Smart Parts Towards Advanced Reactor Applications
Andrew J. Boulanger (Luna Innovation), S. Derek Rountree (Luna Innovation), Connor Donlan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Adam Hehr (Fabrisonic)
Paper
Deep Learning-Based System Diagnosis for Nuclear Power Plant Using Infrared Thermal Cameras
Ik Jae Jin (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Do Yeong Lim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Power for the PSBT Benchmark
Chaitee Godbole (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven)
Prediction of Minimum Film Boiling Temperature Using a Physics-Informed Machine Learning-Aided Framework
K.M. Kim (Virginia Tech), P. Hurley (Virginia Tech), J.P. Duarte (Virginia Tech)
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