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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
Tengfei Zhu, Yang Liu, Xiaoping Ouyang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 54-65
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2318049
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Neutron tomography is an efficient nondestructive testing technique. As a complement to X-ray computed tomography, it has been widely used in various fields. Due to the difficulty of obtaining complete neutron projection data in a high-radiation environment and the high noise characteristics of neutron images, it is difficult to reconstruct a high-quality image using the conventional filtered-back projection (FBP) algorithm. Therefore, research on sparse-view reconstruction algorithms in neutron tomography is needed. To improve the quality of neutron three-dimensional reconstructed images, this paper proposes an algorithm that combines the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (SART) with Fast Gradient Projection (FGP), where the FGP is an algorithm for image denoising and deblurring based on the discrete total variation (TV) minimization model. The algorithm proposed in this paper is compared with other algorithms (FBP, SART, and SART-TV) by simulated experimental data and real neutron experimental data. The experimental results show that the novel algorithm outperforms the other three algorithms in terms of denoising and retaining detailed structural information.