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INL researchers use LEDs to shed light on next-gen reactors
At Idaho National Laboratory, researchers have built a bridge between computer models and the lab’s Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) microreactor.
Tony Crawford, an INL researcher and MARVEL’s reactivity control system lead, designed a phone booth–sized surrogate nuclear reactor called ViBRANT, or Visual Benign Reactor as Analog for Nuclear Testing, which uses light instead of neutrons to show a “nuclear” reaction.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Mitch W. Pryor
Alternate Chair:
Young Soo Park
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Kervin Coss
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A2I2: Autonomous Aquatic Inspection and Intervention in Nuclear Storage Ponds
10:05–10:25AM EST
Simon Watson (Univ. of Manchester), Gary Cross (Rovco), Peter Green (Univ. of Manchester), John Parsons (Thales UK), Peter Routledge (Forth Engineering), Nick Tudor (D-RisQ), Terry Wood (National Oceanographic Centre)
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The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear (RAIN) Hub
10:25–10:45AM EST
Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester), Guy Burroughes (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
TORONE: Materials Characterisation Robot for Nuclear Inspection
10:45–11:05AM EST
Andrew West (Univ. of Manchester), Ioannis Tsitsimpelis (Lancaster Univ.), Paul Coffey (Univ. of Manchester), Michael Aspinall (Lancaster Univ.), Nick T. Smith (Univ. of Manchester), Philip A. Martin (Univ. of Manchester), Malcolm J. Joyce (Lancaster Univ.), Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester)
Image Stitching and Illumination Correction for Metallic Multi-Purpose Canister Visual Inspection Data
11:05–11:25AM EST
Michael Devereux (Univ. of Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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