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GE Research to Receive $6.4 Million in ARPA-E Funding to Advance Used Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Technology
GE’s solution will use novel sensors and imaging techniques with an AI-driven Digital Twin of the fuel reprocessing facility utilizing Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technology to enable real-time tracking of used fuel materials inside the facility with added safeguards and data securitization.Being able to measure nuclear material composition in real time has the potential to save facility operators hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from reduced downtime per year, while increasing the amount of used fuel that can be reprocessed.GE research
