CX-270379: Methods for Process Monitoring to Accurately Detect and Quantify Material Holdup in Advanced Recycle Facilities – University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley proposes to leverage recent advances in radiation detection and imaging in combination with computer vision, advances in radiation transport simulation, and advances in system monitoring and model-based fault detection to develop and demonstrate unique, improved methods of detecting the removal of small amounts of nuclear material in a bulk-handling system that processes very large quantities. Tasks include modeling and simulation of radiation transport, advanced radiation detection instrumentation and experimental validation, detection of inventory changes using model-based fault detection, and optimal design of reprocessing and other bulk handling facilities.