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Materials Science & Technology
The objectives of MSTD are: promote the advancement of materials science in Nuclear Science Technology; support the multidisciplines which constitute it; encourage research by providing a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of relevant information; promote the interaction and communication among its members; and recognize and reward its members for significant contributions to the field of materials science in nuclear technology.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Madison McCarthy, Ataul Bari, Jin Jiang (Univ of Western Ontario)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1785-1794
Wireless systems are gaining momentum within nuclear power plants (NPPs) due to their ease of deployment and higher mobility over their wired counterparts. Particularly, industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are now being used to improve plant efficiencies by replacing periodic surveillance and making data more readily available. IWSNs however have yet to reach their full potential due to several concerns that include IWSN system reliability and availability. Application constraints, such as resource limitations and deployment restrictions, can negatively impact the reliability and availability of a system. To evaluate the reliability of a IWSN system for a NPP monitoring application, it is important to understand how different IWSN device types and network communication protocols affect the overall performance of the system. This paper provides the background necessary to describe an IWSN system reliability and availability, in terms of IWSN device types, and network communication characteristics. Different approaches for modelling IWSN reliability and availability are also discussed.
