Document Type
Annual Report
Publication Date
2007
First page number:
48
Last page number:
49
Abstract
The safe and effective manufacturing of actinide-bearing fuels for any transmutation strategy requires that the entire manufacturing process be contained within a shielded hot cell environment. To ensure that the fabrication process is feasible, the entire process must be designed for remote operation. The equipment must be reliable enough to perform over several decades, and also easy to maintain or repair remotely. The facility must also be designed to facilitate its own decontamination and decommissioning. In addition to these design factors, the potential viability of any fuel fabrication process will also be impacted by a number of variables, such as the current state of technology, potential problem areas, deployment scaling, facility safety, and cost.
Research during the past year focused on vision-based recognition and spatial location of fuel pellets inside a hot cell.
Keywords
Computer simulation; Manipulators (Mechanism); Nuclear fuels – Design and construction; Radioactive wastes—Transmutation; Robot vision; Robots; Industrial
Controlled Subject
Computer simulation; Radioactive wastes--Transmutation; Robots
Disciplines
Nuclear Engineering | Oil, Gas, and Energy | Robotics
File Format
File Size
198 KB
Language
English
Repository Citation
Mauer, G. F.
(2007).
Design Concepts and Process Analysis for Transmuter Fuel Manufacturing.
48-49.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hrc_trp_fuels/57