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THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ASSESS THE STATE-OF-THE ART OF COMPUTERIZED ROBOTS TO DETERMINE WHETHER COST/ BENEFICIAL APPLICATIONS CAN BE MADE IN NUCLEAR PLANT MAINTENANCE AND IF SUCH APPLICATIONS ARE POSSIBLE, TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO SUBSTANTIATE THE COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS, IF ANY, WHICH WOULD INHIBIT NEAR-TERM ADAPTION OF ROBOT TECHNOLOGY IN NUCLEAR PLANT MAINTENANCE ...

A RESEARCH PROJECT IS PROPOSED TO EVALUATE THE SUITABILITY OF NEWLY DEVELOPED SMART SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR BOTH OF THEFOLLOWING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT APPLICATIONS: MANAGEMENT OF AGING DEGRADATION OF SAFETY SYSTEM TEMPERATUREAND PRESSURE SENSORS IN CONVENTIONAL LWRS SMART TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE SENSORS FOR ADVANCED LWRS. THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS BOTH THE CALIBRATION DRIFT AND RESPONSE TIME DEGRADA ...

AS A RESULT OF RECENT PROBLEMS SUCH AS THE OIL LOSS PHENOMENON IN SOME MODELS OF ROSEMOUNT PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS, THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS BECOME INTERESTED IN FIBER OPTIC PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS. THESE TRANSMITTERS ARE POTENTIAL CANDIDATES TO REPLACE THE EXISTING PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS IN THE SAFETY AND NON-SAFETY SYSTEMS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. FURTHERMORE, FIBER OPTIC PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS MAY BE ...

The project objective is to greatly reduce the cost of monitoring soil water content in highly-resolved vertical profile to promote increased adoption of more efficient water management tools. Cost is the most significant barrier to adoption of sophisticated data-driven irrigation management in permanent agriculture. Highly-resolved vertical soil water profiles are needed to learn soil-specific hy ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP AND TEST TECHNIQUES WHICH COMBAT ATMOSPHERIC NOISE AND CONSEQUENTLY INCREASE THE RELIABLE RANGE OF THE DGPS/RADIOBEACON LINK. THE FOLLOWING IDEAS WILL BE EXPLORED AND TESTED: 1) WIDEBAND NOIS CLIPPING, LIMITING OR BLANKING OF NOISE IMPLUSES TO IMPROVE THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO. 2) THE USE OF SIDE INFORMATION TO INFORM A FORWARD ERROR CORRECTING DECODER ...

SAFETY SYSTEM TEMPERATURE SENSORS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE SUBJECT TO PERFORMANCE DEGRATION BECAISE PF AGING EFFECTS. A PROGRAM OF LABORATORY TESTING AND IN-SITU TESTINGIS NEEDED TO ENSURE THAT AGING DOES NOT LEAD TO REDUCED SAFETY AND AVAILABILITY. MUCH OF THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDED FOR THIS PROGRAM NOW EXISTS AS ISOLATED METHODS AND PROCEDURES. THESE WILL BE USED IN THIS PROJECT TO PERFORM AN AGIN ...

A SELF-POWERED RADIATION DETECTOR THAT CAN BE USED TO DETECTTHE SOURCE POSITION IN INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT IS NEEDED. SELF-POWERED DETECTORS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN USEDINFLUX MAPPING SYSTEMS IN NUCLEAR REACTORS BECAUSE OF THEIR SIZE, RUGGEDNESS AND SIMPLICITY. THIS DETECTOR CONCEP PROVIDES THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGECROSS SECTIONAL AREA DETECTORS THATCAN BE USED ...

The project addresses the development of predictive maintenance software for municipal transportation buses in the USA. The research stems from Preteckt’s previous success in developing and commercially deploying similar technology to over-the-road trucking fleets. Success in this project will determine the ideal target bus subsystems to develop predictive maintenance software for when looking a ...

Not Available A program to demonstrate the feasibility of a single multi-hyperspectral infrared sensor capable of both missile threat warning and subpixel ground target detection is proposed. The effort will first identify candidate spectral bands/subbands for both missile threat warning and subpixel ground target detection applications. From these results, clutter rejection and subpixel target d ...

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