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Texas A&M welcomes uranium conversion research
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a research agreement with Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) “to advance and de-risk the commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride (UF6).”
QLE is an Austin, Texas–based subsidiary of ASP Isotopes (ASPI), which is developing an isotope enrichment platform for applications in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and semiconductors. QLE specializes in the uranium conversion step of the nuclear fuel cycle—the conversion of yellowcake uranium concentrate (U3O8) into UF6 prior to enrichment.
Yochan Kim, Jinkyun Park, Mary Presley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 11 | November 2023 | Pages 2787-2799
PSA 2021 Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2118481
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the development of new digital human-machine interfaces, many discussions in the nuclear industry have focused on the human factors issues that arise from the interfaces. To quantitatively characterize the effects of the interfaces on human reliability, we collected empirical data from a full-scope simulator of the APR1400 nuclear power plant using the Human Reliability Extraction (HuREX) framework. From the numerous variables in the collected data describing the contexts of the performance influencing factors (PIFs), including crew experience, task complexity, and procedure quality, the significant variables were identified by three techniques comprising both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Based on the selected variables, the nominal error probabilities and PIF multipliers were then estimated by logistic regression analysis. This paper interprets the meanings of the estimates and discusses the advantages of the employed variable selection techniques.