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Center for Used Fuel Research: Building confidence in storage and transport
Used nuclear fuel storage and transportation have reached a critical juncture.
Dozens of utilities need reliable data on how used nuclear fuel performs in dry storage casks and canisters to extend regulatory licenses at sites across the United States. Likewise, the Department of Energy expects to take ownership of the used nuclear fuel—termed “spent nuclear fuel” in the laws and regulations governing its stewardship—and transfer it to one or more federal staging facilities for management and disposition.
Meanwhile, dozens of reactor companies are testing prototypes of advanced reactors and advanced reactor fuels. Eventually, regulators and industry must also verify the safety and security of storage methods for these advanced fuel types.
To help address these challenges, the DOE established the Center for Used Fuel Research (CUFR) in January 2026 for work related to the long-term storage and transport of used nuclear fuel.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)|Cosponsored by NPIC&HMIT
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Sai Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Natural Language Processing-Enhanced Nuclear Industry Operating Experience Data Analysis: Aggregation and Interpretation of Multi-Report Analysis Results
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Min Xian (Univ. Idaho)
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The Development of an Outlier Detection Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Nuclear Power Plant Cables
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Gabriel Lentchner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), John Leland (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Elijah Connatser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Casey Sexton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Verification and Validation Approach for Use of Data Analytics in Nuclear Power Plants
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Ethan Wise (Jensen Hughes), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Andrew Miller (Jensen Hughes)
Creating Annotated Corpus and Named Entity Recognition Model for Nuclear Power Industry
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Hideki Sekiguchi (NCSU), Joomyung Lee (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
