🗑 Capsa Solutions (UK) submits its waste containe design to the Nuclear Waste Services. The company was established in 2017 in response to a challenge by Sellafield Ltd. Its unshielded intermediate level waste (ILW) container for Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) storage features a reverse-iris design departing from traditional bolted lids.
🤖 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (Japan) adapts its Deep Anomaly Surveillance (DeAnoS) AI tool for fusion application, in cooperation with the ITER Organization. The tool prevents equipment failure by identifying abnormal data using autoencoders and applying sparse optimization to determine the root cause. While it was originally designed for monitoring telco networks, it can also prevent downtime caused by errors in the high-temperature environment of fusion reactors.
⚗ NuScale Power and the US Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaborate on a techno-economic assessment of the use of a small modular reactor for steam heat augmentation in a US chemical facility. The assessment will evaluate aspects such as steam reliability, operational costs, system stability, and siting. The collaborative effort aims to explore a decarbonization pathway for energy-intensive sectors.
👨🎓 Paper of the week: "Diplomatic, geopolitical and economic consequences of an impending asteroid threat", Acta Astronautica (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.10.052
👉 In the event of a potential asteroid impact, the primary focus is whether the United Nations Security Council would authorize the use of nuclear explosive devices.
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