AUTOMATING SPENT FUEL DEFECT DETECTION WITH FUSED DCVD AND GET DATA
Within the safeguards regime, spent fuel monitoring has long been implemented to verify facility declarations. As the number and size of facilities under safeguards increase, so does time spent on highly repetitive spent fuel monitoring, making it an area ripe for automation. However, due to international proliferation concerns, automation must be robust and provide estimates of confidence in the results. Cerenkov Viewing Devices (CVDs) are widely implemented for spent fuel monitoring, but their single defect detection ability is limited. In this research, we augment CVD measurements with Gamma Emission Tomographer (GET) data in order to increase defect detection above the level of either detector method individually. Here we present the development and implementation of a Bayesian data fusion algorithm for classification of individual fuel rods as defects or nondefects across two burn-up and cooling time scenarios. Results show a nearly 75% single defect detection capability with a 10% false positive rate for 17x17 PWR fuel assemblies. The Bayesian framework also enables calculation of uncertainties associated with each classification. These results also show a moderate ability to generalize across both high burn-up and short cooling times as well as low burn-up and long cooling times.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1583130
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-143737
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference/Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference (Global/Top Fuel 2019), September 22-26, 2019, Seattle, WA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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