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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ of Texas at San Antonio)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1691-1697
In this work a new methodology for monitoring reactor systems is introduced and its application on pressurized water reactor (PWR) data is presented. The methodology implements a synergistic framework of various relevance vector machines and fuzzy inference. The goal of the framework is to fuse the sensor readings and provide them in a solid form to the operator: this solid form is identified as the state of the reactor. Initially, each of the relevance vector machines fuses the data taken from a specific set of sensors, which have been assigned to it. In the next step, the fused data in the form of a nominal value are forwarded to a fuzzy inference system that takes the values of all the relevance vector machines and further fuses the data by providing a single value that matches the state of the reactor. This proposed methodology is applied on a set of real-world data taken from the LOFT Facility, which is a setup to simulate a pressurized water reactor. Results demonstrate the efficiency of the method in identifying the correct reactor state, while reducing the volume of processing data.