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The Mass Tracking System for the Integral Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle

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OSTI ID:10167486
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
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As part of the Fuel Cycle Facility (FCF) of Argonne National Laboratory’s Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) demonstration, a computer-based Mass-Tracking (MTG) System has been developed. The MTG System collects, stores, retrieves and processes data on all operations which directly affect the flow of process material through FCF and supports such activities as process modeling, compliance with operating limits (e.g., criticality safety), material control and accountability and operational information services. Its architecture is client/server, with input and output connections to operator’s equipment-control stations on the floor of FCF as well as to terminal sessions. Its heterogeneous database includes a relational- database manager as well as both binary and ASCII data files. The design of the database, and the software that supports it, is based on a model of discrete accountable items distributed in space and time and constitutes a complete historical record of the material processed in FCF. Although still under development, much of the MTG System has been qualified and is in production use.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); USDOE Nuclear Energy Programs
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
10167486
Report Number(s):
ANL/RA/CP--83425; CONF-940748--7; ON: DE94015082
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

050800
055001
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
210500
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ANL
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
DATA ACQUISITION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
Fuel Cycle Facility (FCF)
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)
LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS
MEMORY DEVICES
MONITORING
Mass-Tracking (MTG) System
Materials Control and Account (MC&A)
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
Operator Control Stations (OCSs)
POWER REACTORS
BREEDING
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
REPROCESSING
SPENT FUELS
SPENT FUELS REPROCESSING
TECHNICAL ASPECTS