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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301B
Session Chair:
Linyu Lin
Alternate Chair:
Junyung Kim
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Linyu Lin
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joseph Oncken
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Tim Nguyen
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Kyle Warns
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Adaptive Data-Driven Model Predictive Control for Heat Pipe Microreactors
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Linyu Lin (INL), Benjamin Zastrow (Univ. Texas, Austin), Joseph Oncken (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Paper
Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactors Under Normal and Heat Pipe Failure Conditions
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Joseph Oncken (INL), Linyu Lin (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Design and Prototyping of Diagnostic Methods to Support Autonomous Operations of Advanced Reactors
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
An Interpretation of the Bellman Equation for Risk-Informed Decision Making
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Kyle Warns (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
