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NERS publishes report on machine learning and microreactors
The University of Michigan’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) has published a summary of a study on nuclear microreactors and machine learning (ML) that was conducted by researchers from NERS and Idaho National Laboratory. The full paper, “Nuclear Microreactor Transient and Load-Following Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” was featured in the July issue of Energy Conversion and Management: X.
D. D. Sood, P. N. Iyer, R. Prasad, V. N. Vaidya, K. N. Roy, V. Venugopal, Z. Singh, M. V. Ramaniah
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 411-415
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24314
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The feasibility of using plutonium as a fuel in a molten salt reactor has been evaluated by the determination of the solubility of PuF3 in a number of salt compositions containing LiF, BeF2, and ThF4 in the temperature range of interest for such a reactor. An empirical correlation for the solubility of PuF3 as a function of salt composition has been obtained from the solubility data to calculate the solubility of PuF3 in other salt compositions of interest. These data indicate that PuF3 has adequate solubility in salt compositions of interest for a molten salt reactor of either the converter or the breeder type.
