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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.
J. Van Impe, J. P. Rombaux, P. Chaussonnet
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 6 | December 1969 | Pages 529-536
Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28372
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A new head-end process step and feasibility study of the process for an operating reprocessing plant, consisting of electrolytic-disassembly cutting and simultaneous lixiviation of metal-clad oxide power-reactor fuels, has been developed and its potential as a fuel head-end reprocessing step for stainless steel and Zircaloy-clad oxide fuels evaluated with unirradiated fuels. The electrolytic cutting and simultaneous lixiviation is realized by the penetration into each of the fuel rods of the assembly, of a layer of hollow, insulated metallic needles by anodic dissolution of a small slit of the fuel cladding by the electrolyte under high pressure, which by its action simultaneously lixiviates the oxide from the fuel rods; the fuel assembly acts as the anode and the needle layer as the cathode.
