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Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology 1. Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: An Assessment of Technologies and Challenges Rupsha Bhattacharyya
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2. Efficient Plant Monitoring and Control using Improved Human Machine Interface with Intelligent Features T. Jayanthi, K. Velusamy, H. Seetha, M. Uma Maheshwari, S.A.V. Satya Murty 12
Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology ISSN: 2277-6184(online), ISSN: 2321-6514(print) Volume 4, Issue 2 www.stmjournals.com
Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: An Assessment of Technologies and Challenges Rupsha Bhattacharyya* Heavy Water Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Abstract Spent fuel discharged from nuclear reactors must necessarily be handled further, whether or not a closed fuel cycle is adopted by a nation. Thus every nuclear facility must have provisions of spent fuel storage to cool it sufficiently and to allow its radioactivity to decrease substantially before reprocessing or before its ultimate disposal. With increasing importance of nuclear power in the days to come, it will become necessary to handle ever increasing volumes of spent fuel and thus their proper storage and management is crucial to the safe operation and long term sustainability of a nuclear power plant. This work presents an overview of existing spent fuel management technology applied globally and discusses research work being presently undertaken worldwide to provide ways of sorting out some technical issues and improving various aspects of the storage technology so as to meet the challenges that a growing nuclear power industry is likely to face in the near future.
Keywords: Spent fuel, Interim storage, Dry cask, Vault, Wet storage, Transportation
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Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology ISSN: 2277-6184(online), ISSN: 2321-6514 (print) Volume 4, Issue 2 www.stmjournals.com
Efficient Plant Monitoring and Control using Improved Human Machine Interface with Intelligent Features T. Jayanthi1, K. Velusamy2, H. Seetha1, M. Uma Maheshwari1, S.A.V. Satya Murty1 1
Computer Division, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, TamilNadu-603102, India Mechanics & Hydraulics Division, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, TamilNadu-603102, India
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Abstract The Human Machine Interface (HMI) plays an important role in Nuclear Power Plant monitoring and control for ensuring plant safety and reliability. A well designed operator interface provides an effective platform for efficient plant monitoring and control under all conditions. The past statistics indicate that most of the accidents that have taken place are due to human error where HMI was also one among the contributing factors. This paper discusses about the improvements that are possible to bring down such errors to a large extent with Human Machine Interface as a main theme. It can also guide the operator to make quicker and accurate inference and make flawless decisions. This paper highlights the design and implementation of improved HMI with intelligent features, the advantages, methodologies adopted and mimics with dynamic display of parameters.
Keywords: Intelligent Human machine Interface, Alarm Alert, Alarm Tracking, Information Management, Information overload, Human Error etc.
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