Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) are working in cooperation to develop an advanced transparency framework capable of assessing diversion risk in support of overall plant transparency.
The automation of new nuclear facilities requiring minimal manual operation provides an opportunity to utilize the abundance of process information for monitoring diversion risk. Using the process data inherent to the plant, we have developed a methodology for calculating the diversion risk of the plant based on a comparison of expected and observed operations. The one-twelfth scale model represents the actual fuel handling activities at the Monju Fast Breeder Reactor. The operational data for the model is similar in nature to the actual plant operational data.
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A traditional transparency system involves: |
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Point of Contact:
Gary Rochau,
505-845-7543