“Agenda Item 3. Key Milestones 2018” by EUWI+ team
EU Water Initiative plus for Eastern Partnership (EUWI+East)
Project Progress Meeting
Minsk, Belarus, 26 April 2018
Participative River Basin Management Planning by Yunona Videnina and Pierre Henry de Villeneuve
4th meeting of the Coordination Committee of the National Policy Dialogue on integrated water resources management in the Republic of Moldova
(the 26th NPD meeting under the EUWI in Moldova)
June 15, 2018
“Progress since May 2017” by EUWI+ team
EU Water Initiative plus for Eastern Partnership (EUWI+East)
Project Progress Meeting
Minsk, Belarus, 26 April 2018
A study completed by the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection (required by the legislature) that analyzes the risks posed by landfills accepting drill cuttings and drilling waste from fracked shale wells. The study, titled "Examination of Leachate, Drill Cuttings and Related Environmental, Economic and Technical Aspects Associated with Solid Waste Facilities in West Virginia", finds very little concern with accepting frack waste in WV landfills.
“Agenda Item 3. Key Milestones 2018” by EUWI+ team
EU Water Initiative plus for Eastern Partnership (EUWI+East)
Project Progress Meeting
Minsk, Belarus, 26 April 2018
Participative River Basin Management Planning by Yunona Videnina and Pierre Henry de Villeneuve
4th meeting of the Coordination Committee of the National Policy Dialogue on integrated water resources management in the Republic of Moldova
(the 26th NPD meeting under the EUWI in Moldova)
June 15, 2018
“Progress since May 2017” by EUWI+ team
EU Water Initiative plus for Eastern Partnership (EUWI+East)
Project Progress Meeting
Minsk, Belarus, 26 April 2018
A study completed by the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection (required by the legislature) that analyzes the risks posed by landfills accepting drill cuttings and drilling waste from fracked shale wells. The study, titled "Examination of Leachate, Drill Cuttings and Related Environmental, Economic and Technical Aspects Associated with Solid Waste Facilities in West Virginia", finds very little concern with accepting frack waste in WV landfills.
Hear about the latest research the UCPRC is conducting into asphalt pavements for Caltrans, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration and others, as well as highlighting the evaluation of long-life (perpetual) asphalt pavement projects in California designed to last 40 years or more with minimal maintenance.
"Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub (CAUL)"
Cathy Oke, Knowledge Broker, Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub presented an overview of her group as part of the SMART Seminar Series on 24 August 2016.
For more information, visit the event page at: http://smart.uow.edu.au/events/UOW219527.html
Final Report on Transport Canada Project Investigating the Methodologies Used...Barry Wellar
This report lists the tasks undertaken and the reports resulting from an investigation into the methods and techniques used by municipalities in Canada to make decisions to identify, adopt, and implement sustainable transport practices. Communications among researchers doing similar studies in other countries are encouraged.
Sustainable Management of the Nexus in Transboundary Systems DAFNE project
The presentation took place at the Resource Nexus Policy & Cluster Workshop on 27th November 2018 in Brussels that was organized by DAFNE, SIM4NEXUS and MAGIC at EASME premises. Read more about the workshop here: https://dafne.ethz.ch/2018/12/11/resource-nexus-policy-cluster-workshop-27th-november-brussels/
Tom Williams, program managers for TTI's Travel Forecasting Group, gave this presentation on a current research project at the 2016 Smart Transport Symposium held in Austin, Texas. This research explores the transportation planning implications of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CV) on Texas highways and includes an in-depth study of how travel modeling can assist in planning for AV/CV. The research team assessed how these potentially transformative technologies can be included in transportation planning to assist in the decision making process. The research team also defined AV/CV implementation along various scales of vehicle technology advancement, public acceptance and adoption, and infrastructure implementation. For more information on TxDOT project 0-6848 visit: http://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?q=MC02ODQ4&ctID=M2UxNzg5YmEtYzMyZS00ZjBlLWIyODctYzljMzQ3ZmVmOWFl&rID=MzQ4&qcf=&ph=VHJ1ZQ==&bckToL=VHJ1ZQ==&
Hear about the latest research the UCPRC is conducting into asphalt pavements for Caltrans, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration and others, as well as highlighting the evaluation of long-life (perpetual) asphalt pavement projects in California designed to last 40 years or more with minimal maintenance.
"Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub (CAUL)"
Cathy Oke, Knowledge Broker, Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub presented an overview of her group as part of the SMART Seminar Series on 24 August 2016.
For more information, visit the event page at: http://smart.uow.edu.au/events/UOW219527.html
Final Report on Transport Canada Project Investigating the Methodologies Used...Barry Wellar
This report lists the tasks undertaken and the reports resulting from an investigation into the methods and techniques used by municipalities in Canada to make decisions to identify, adopt, and implement sustainable transport practices. Communications among researchers doing similar studies in other countries are encouraged.
Sustainable Management of the Nexus in Transboundary Systems DAFNE project
The presentation took place at the Resource Nexus Policy & Cluster Workshop on 27th November 2018 in Brussels that was organized by DAFNE, SIM4NEXUS and MAGIC at EASME premises. Read more about the workshop here: https://dafne.ethz.ch/2018/12/11/resource-nexus-policy-cluster-workshop-27th-november-brussels/
Tom Williams, program managers for TTI's Travel Forecasting Group, gave this presentation on a current research project at the 2016 Smart Transport Symposium held in Austin, Texas. This research explores the transportation planning implications of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CV) on Texas highways and includes an in-depth study of how travel modeling can assist in planning for AV/CV. The research team assessed how these potentially transformative technologies can be included in transportation planning to assist in the decision making process. The research team also defined AV/CV implementation along various scales of vehicle technology advancement, public acceptance and adoption, and infrastructure implementation. For more information on TxDOT project 0-6848 visit: http://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?q=MC02ODQ4&ctID=M2UxNzg5YmEtYzMyZS00ZjBlLWIyODctYzljMzQ3ZmVmOWFl&rID=MzQ4&qcf=&ph=VHJ1ZQ==&bckToL=VHJ1ZQ==&
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
5 june 7 nfstpp overview and relationship to ufd_carter
1. Nuclear Fuels Storage & Transportation Planning Project
Office of Fuel Cycle Technologies
Nuclear Energy
Overview of DOE-NE’s
Nuclear Fuels Storage
and Transportation
Planning Project (NFST)
Joe Carter
Storage Control Account Manager of the DOE-NE’s
Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation
Planning Project
(Savannah River National Laboratory)
UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
June 7, 2016
Las Vegas, NV
2. 2
DOE-NE’s NFST Program is Planning for
Interim Storage and Transportation as
Part of an Integrated Waste Management
System
Mission
Lay the groundwork for implementing interim storage, including
associated transportation, per the Administration’s Strategy for the
Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level
Radioactive Waste
Develop the foundation for a new nuclear waste management
organization
Purpose
Make progress on this important national issue within existing
legislative and budget authorizations
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
3. 3
Strategy for the Management and
Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and
High-Level Radioactive Waste Guides
NFST’s Activities
“With the appropriate authorizations from Congress, the
Administration currently plans to implement a program
… that:
Sites, designs and licenses, constructs and begins operations of
a pilot interim storage facility … with an initial focus on
accepting used nuclear fuel from shut-down reactor sites;
Advances toward the siting and licensing of a larger interim
storage facility … that will have sufficient capacity to provide
flexibility in the waste management system and allows for
acceptance of enough used nuclear fuel to reduce expected
government liabilities; and
Makes demonstrable progress on the siting and characterization of
repository sites to facilitate the availability of a geologic repository”
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
4. 4
Near-Term Objectives to Lay the
Groundwork for Strategy Implementation
Develop and maintain an integrated plan to accomplish the Strategy goals
Improve integration of storage as a planned part of the waste management
system, including evaluating standardization of dry cask storage systems
Develop and evaluate facility design options for an integrated waste
management system
Develop and apply systems analyses to provide quantitative estimates of
system impacts of utility and federal actions and inform future decisions
Establish the basis and identify options for management decisions on an
integrated waste management system
Prepare for the large-scale transportation of SNF and HLW, with an initial
focus on removing SNF from the shutdown reactor sites
Establish and maintain a unified and integrated SNF database and analysis
system to characterize the input to the waste management system
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
5. 5
DOE-NE’s NFST Program is Organized
into Four Key Elements
* Indicates areas that are
not currently active
Consent-Based
Siting
• Siting process design
• Communication products
• Site evaluation and selection*
• Site acquisition*
Transportation
• Institutional
• Operational
• Hardware
Storage
• Design
• NEPA
• Regulatory
• Construction*
• Operations*
Strategic
Crosscuts
• Project management
• Systems analyses
• Data/document access
• Standardization/
integration
• Characterization and
Assessment
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
6. 6
Supporting the Development of a
Publicly Accepted Consent-
Based Siting Process
To launch the consent-based siting
effort, the DOE issued an Invitation for
Public Comment in the Federal
Register soliciting input on important
considerations in designing a fair and
effective process for siting
• Input can be provided in response to
the Invitation for Public Comment in the
Federal Register or via email at
consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov
DOE is holding public meetings
around the country to hear from the
public, communities, states, Tribes,
and all interested stakeholders on
what matters to them in moving
forward in developing a consent-based
process
http://www.energy.gov/ne/consent-based-siting
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
7. 7
Supporting the Development of a
Publicly Accepted Consent-
Based Siting Process
Continue populating and maintaining a database of prior siting efforts
• http://curie.ornl.gov/SED/pages/sed-homepage
Continue gaining additional insights on public preference
Developing communication products to support public interactions
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
8. 8
Evaluating interim storage design concepts,
with input from industry contractors
• Generic Design Alternatives for Dry Storage of
Used Nuclear Fuel (CB&I)
Preparing to develop a generic pilot ISF
design and Topical Safety Analysis Report
• Procurement underway
Initiating development of a draft licensing
strategy for a pilot ISF
Initiating development of an environmental
considerations document
Continuing efforts related to Aging
Management at an ISF
• Participation in EPRI ESCP
• ASME code case: Examination Requirements and
Acceptance Standards for Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation Canisters
Laying the Groundwork for
Consolidated Interim Storage
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
9. 9
Dry Storage Design Concepts for
Consolidated Interim Storage
(Flexible, Adaptable, and Expandable)
Dry Storage Alternatives
• Pad storage using currently licensed storage
overpacks
– New concrete overpacks
• Vault configurations
– Horizontal, vertical
– Above and below grade
Canister Receipt
• Commercially available transfer systems
– Mobile cranes, no weather enclosure
– Installed cranes, weather enclosure
• Canister transfer building
• Canister transfer building with remote operations
Tradeoffs associated with each concept
Input to integrated waste management
system analysis
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
10. 10
Developing the Large-Scale
Transportation System
Continuing interaction and collaboration with
stakeholders
• Developing plans for transportation operations
• Understanding rail route selection and rail inspection options
• Working to finalize DOE’s Section 180(c) Policy
Continuing development of the Stakeholder
Tool for Assessing Radioactive
Transportation (START)
DOE is developing a railcar to comply with the Association of
American Railroads Standard S-2043
• Contract with AREVA to design S-2043-compliant cask and buffer railcars, and to
fabricate prototypes
• Future contract for prototype testing
• DOE is evaluating several possible contracting options for large-scale fleet fabrication
and operations
Note: Route shown for illustrative purposes only
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
11. 11
Potential Transportation
Routes Generated by
START
START generates potential routes for possible future transportation operations
• Web-based application of geographic information system (GIS) data and analysis
• Includes transportation infrastructure for rail, truck, and barge
• Uses data related to populations, land uses, emergency response, etc.
• Ability to generate multiple routes based on user requests
Min population
Min travel time
(with restrictions)
Min travel time
Example route is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect a selected destination site
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
12. 12
Developing the Large-Scale
Transportation System
Planning efforts to remove SNF from shutdown
reactor sites
• Collecting and documenting information related to site
inventory, site conditions, and near-site transportation
infrastructure and experience
• Visited 12 of the 13 shutdown sites: Vermont Yankee
visit May 10-12
• Updating the shutdown sites report
• Preparing initial site-specific de-inventory analysis for
five shutdown sites
– Understanding of the tasks and interfaces necessary for the
complete de-inventory
• Connecticut Yankee, Big Rock Point, Humbolt Bay, Trojan, Maine
Yankee
MP187 Transportation Cask Heavy Haul to Rancho Seco
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
14. 14
Used Nuclear Fuel Storage, Transportation, & Disposal Analysis
Resource and Data System (UNF-ST&DARDS)
• Data and SNF characteristics
Transportation Storage and Logistics (TSL) & Next Generation System
Analysis Model (NGSAM)
• Alternative configurations and concepts of operations
Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation (START)
• Identification of potential transportation routes
Execution Strategy Analysis (ESA)
• Alternative implementation strategies
Multi-Evaluation Objective Framework (MOEF)
• Assessing alternatives against objectives and stakeholder perspectives
Centralized Used Fuel Resource for Information Exchange (CURIE)
• Sharing data, analysis, and reports
Integrated Waste Management
System Analysis Tool Hierarchy
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
15. 15
Consistent, Reliable Data is
Maintained in UNF-ST&DARDS
The consistency, quality, and traceability of the information and data
used by our system tools is paramount.
The Unified Database in UNF-ST&DARDS
• Provides for consolidation, collection, archival, and distribution of
traceable SNF data
UNF-ST&DARDS (Used Nuclear Fuel Storage, Transportation, &
Disposal Analysis Resource and Data System)
• Builds the foundation for all future SNF and system analysis
• Enables SNF characterization
• Enables realistic safety margins
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
16. 16
UNF-ST&DARDS Performs the SNF
Characterization that is Required
by All Other Tools
Models
• Depletion:
Triton,
ORIGEN
• Thermal:
COBRA-SFS
• Criticality:
KENO-VI
• Dose
• Containment
• Fuel
Performance
• Assembly ID
• Assembly
type
• Initial
enrichment
• Discharge
burnup
• Cycle start
and end
dates
• Geometric
configuration
• Materials of
construction
• Design
dimensions
• Control
components
• Cycle
specific
burnup
• Soluble
boron
• Rod insertion
history
• Batch
loadings
• Axial burnup
profiles
• Moderator
temperature
• Geometric
configuration
• Materials of
construction
• Design
dimensions
• Cask
loading
patterns
• Component
loading
859 data
Assembly data
Reactor data
Cask data
Depletion
• How much and which
isotopes are in the SNF at
a given time?
Shielding
• What are the dose rates in
storage and transportation
configurations?
Criticality
• What are margins to
criticality?
Thermal
• What are the SNF components (e.g., cladding, basket, fuel)
temperature?
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
17. 17
System Architecture Analysis is
Used to Answer Many Important
Questions
What are the strategies for removing SNF from the reactor sites?
What are the transportation assets needed and facilities that must be
constructed for different alternatives?
How much will it cost to
construct and operate?
How would multiple ISFs
impact system performance
metrics?
• Costs
• Transportation
• Etc.
Utilizes Transportation
Storage and Logistics
(TSL) & Next
Generation System
Analysis Model
(NGSAM) tools
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
18. 18
Current Capabilities Provide
Rough-Order-of-Magnitude
Estimates of Costs, Materials,
Asset Needs, etc.
The Transportation Storage
Logistics (TSL) simulator models
the following activities
• Assembly discharges
• Transfer of SNF to dry storage
• At-reactor and ISF pool capacity
• Canister/Cask loading
• Canister/Cask /Overpack thermal
limits
• Some ISF and repository
operational requirements
• Acceptance rates from reactors
• Allocation strategies (i.e., which
reactors go when)
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
19. 19
Improve Waste Management
System Architecture Analysis
Capabilities
A new tool, NGSAM, designed to simulate a broad range of scenarios to:
• Provide quantitative information about alternatives
• Evaluate at-reactor constraints on system performance
• Evaluate multiple ISFs with different operational profiles
• More accurately model system-wide impacts of:
– Repository emplacements limits
– Transportation requirements
– Facility operational limitations
Current Capabilities
• Detailed at-reactor operations
– benchmarking ongoing
• High-level modeling of the ISF, disposal
canister packaging, and repository
• Linked with Unified Database
• Platform/Operating System independent
– Mac, Windows, Linux
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
20. 20
ESA Analyzes Alternative
Implementation Strategies,
Including the Impacts of Risks
and Uncertainties
The ESA approach builds on traditional project management tools
(i.e., Gantt Charts, WBS) and provides additional insight
• Constraints
– Policy, legislation, regulatory
• Explicitly models
– uncertainty and its impacts
– risks and opportunities
• Allows for the assessment of alternative
implementation scenarios
ESA improves understanding of
the effects of uncertainty and the
potential impacts of risks and
opportunities
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
21. 21
Multi-Objective Evaluation
Framework to Evaluate
Alternatives in a Structured
Manner
Nuclear waste management is a
complex socio-technical problem
Multi-objective evaluation is based
on the principles and methods of
decision analysis
• Used in engineering, business, and
policy analysis
Objective is to apply a systematic methodology to evaluation alternatives
for consideration by decision makers.
Loading standard transportation,
aging, and disposal canisters
(STADs) at Reactor Sites
Reactor Priority Perspective
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
22. 22
Data, Analyses, and Reports are
Shared Using the CURIE Website
Advanced search functionality
Public and private collaboration
environments
Up-to-date, permissions-based
event calendar
Image galleries
Automated, live news feed
Siting Experience Database
• BRC near-term recommendation
Map-based visualization of
reactor- and site-specific storage
information
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
23. 23
Users Can Display UNF-
ST&DARDS Data Using the Map
Function on CURIE
The initial integration of CURIE and UNF-ST&DARDS provides user access
and visualization of SNF data not otherwise available in a centralized
location
• Visualization of numerous SNF data and reactor sites
• Data can be filtered by site, state, operating status, etc.
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
24. 24
Laying the Groundwork for
Standardization
Furthering the quantitative assessment of
relevant options to establish basis for future
decision making
• Standardization at an ISF and alternative SNF
acceptance approaches
• Included representative repository concepts
Utilized industry contracts to obtain
needed additional information
• Generic design for small size STAD canister system
(EnergySolutions)
• Investigated operational aspects for implementation
of STAD canister systems at operating reactors
(EnergySolutions)
Developed a Standardized Transportation, Aging,
and Disposal (STAD) canister specification and
specification rationale to support system studies
and potential research, development, and
demonstration activities
Comparison of ROM system cost of different initial
canister loading strategies and disposal in small (4 PWR)
canisters
June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting
