Automated CT Data Analysis for Nuclear Reactor Maintenance

This project is aiming at the development of integrated computed tomography (CT) for automated integrity control of tools used in nuclear reactors during maintenance and inspection activities. Due to large number of complex tools, and the fact that the current process of tool integrity check is performed manually, the time required to finish the integrity check associated with each reactor maintenance and inspection task is extremely high. The current process is prone to human errors, where human inspectors might falsely assumes remaining parts are in the vault, with extended outage time that increases the costs of nuclear reactor repair and maintenance work in the order of millions of dollars. The proposed project is employing X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) technology to scan every tool before and after every vault work. Using advanced image processing, the pre-use scan before the vault work can be used to check every critical part of the tool. The automated pre-use scan process will verify if the tool is ready for vault use or not which will reduce time and cost.

Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber;Jing Ren

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Partner:

New Vision Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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