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Droughts, wildfires continue to impact power plants in Europe
The effects of this summer’s historic heatwave continue to be felt across Europe. Soaring temperatures and drought in the region have led to elevated river temperatures, low river levels, and wildfires, which have significantly impacted nuclear power plants across the continent.
France’s Electricité de France has reported elevated river temperatures which have forced production cuts, including recent cuts at Golfech, and nuclear power plants in Hungary, Romania, and the United Kingdom, have faced exceptional challenges in recent days.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue)
Alternate Chair:
Sven Bader (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Assess Geological Characteristics in the Subsurface
8:00–8:20AM MST
H.R. Gadey (PNNL), R. Howard (PNNL), S.C. Tognini (ORNL), J.L. Meszaros (ORNL), R. Montgomery (ORNL), S. Chatzidakis (Purdue), J. Bae (Purdue), R. Clark (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
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Frequency Response Function Based Damage Detection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
8:20–8:40AM MST
Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh (Univ. Southern California), Bora Gencturk (Univ. Southern California), Roger Ghanem (Univ. Southern California), Anna Arcaro (Univ. Southern California)
Fusion of Distributed Fiber Optics, Acoustic NDE for Spent Fuel Monitoring Towards Physics-Informed Machine Learning
8:40–9:00AM MST
Pengdi Zhang (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhishek Venketeswaran (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ruishu F. Wright (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ryan M. Meyer (PNNL), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Monitoring Spent Nuclear Fuel in a Dry Cask Using Momentum Integrated Muon Scattering Tomography
9:00–9:20AM MST
Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities
9:20–9:40AM MST
B. Craig (ANL), K. Byrne (ANL), Y.Y. Liu (ANL), M. Hoover (Embedded Planet)