A plant maintenance assisting system is provided with: an abnormality indication monitoring system; an abnormality diagnosis system; a maintenance plan creation system; a risk evaluation system; and a component management system. On the basis of risk information and abnormality diagnosis information that is a result of diagnosis by the abnormality diagnosis system, the risk evaluation system determines the need for maintenance work with respect to an abnormality indicating facility. In a case where it is determined that maintenance work with respect to the abnormality indicating facility is necessary, the maintenance plan creation system sets, in a maintenance plan, maintenance implementation timing of maintenance work with respect to a facility including the abnormality indicating facility. On the basis of component management information, the component management system determines whether a component can be procured at the maintenance implementation timing set by the maintenance plan creation system.

Provided is a SiC semiconductor element equipped with a SiC integrated circuit having a stable characteristic, which operates normally even in a radiation environment. A radiation resistant circuit device includes: a SiC semiconductor element equipped with a SiC integrated circuit, a printed board on which the SiC semiconductor element is provided, a conductive wiring that is arranged inside the printed board and has a predetermined surface facing a bottom surface of a substrate electrode of the SiC integrated circuit, and an insulating material arranged between the bottom surface of the substrate electrode of the SiC integrated circuit and the predetermined surface of the conductive wiring.

Provided is a SiC semiconductor element equipped with a SiC integrated circuit having a stable characteristic, which operates normally even in a radiation environment. A radiation resistant circuit device includes: a SiC semiconductor element equipped with a SiC integrated circuit, a printed board on which the SiC semiconductor element is provided, a conductive wiring that is arranged inside the printed board and has a predetermined surface facing a bottom surface of a substrate electrode of the SiC integrated circuit, and an insulating material arranged between the bottom surface of the substrate electrode of the SiC integrated circuit and the predetermined surface of the conductive wiring.

An apparatus for performing an inspection on the beams of the top guide of a BWR includes a housing, an alignment assembly, and an inspection system. The housing is receivable atop the upper edges of a first pair of beams adjacent a receptacle of the top guide. The reception of the housing atop the upper edges of the first pair of beams is facilitated by the alignment assembly which includes a plurality of legs that are simultaneously moved between a retracted position wherein one or more of the legs is disengaged from the beams within the receptacle and an extended position wherein all of the legs are engaged with the beams of the top guide within the receptacle. The inspection system includes a pair of inspection elements that are translated above a second pair of beams that are adjacent the receptacle and that do not have the housing received thereon.

An apparatus for performing an inspection on the beams of the top guide of a BWR includes a housing, an alignment assembly, and an inspection system. The housing is receivable atop the upper edges of a first pair of beams adjacent a receptacle of the top guide. The reception of the housing atop the upper edges of the first pair of beams is facilitated by the alignment assembly which includes a plurality of legs that are simultaneously moved between a retracted position wherein one or more of the legs is disengaged from the beams within the receptacle and an extended position wherein all of the legs are engaged with the beams of the top guide within the receptacle. The inspection system includes a pair of inspection elements that are translated above a second pair of beams that are adjacent the receptacle and that do not have the housing received thereon.

A system and a method for simulating an operation of one or more automated tools within a nuclear facility. The system includes a communication component to provide access to one or more computing devices, one or more local controllers for processing command requests from the one or more computing devices for the one or more automated tools, and a processor in communication with the communication component and the one or more local controllers. The local controllers may be programmable logic controllers. The method includes using the local controllers for processing command requests received from the computing devices to generate process values for the one or more automated tools, and operating a processor use the process values to animate a three-dimensional model and generate one or more views of the animation of the three-dimensional model to be displayed at one or more computing devices.

Selecting the information displayed on a sports watch, the watch comprising an interface for receiving movement information from at least one sensor; a display; and at least two display modes, wherein at least one mode is a sport mode configured to display sport-specific data. The method according to the invention comprises detecting a sport event based on the movement information received from the at least one sensor; and selecting the sport mode according to the detected sport event.

An online monitoring system for industrial processes, such as nuclear power processes, including a data acquisition unit configured to sample output signals simultaneously from a plurality of process sensors, and a computing unit configured to record sampled output signals from the data acquisition unit and to cross-correlate the output signals from two or more of the process sensors to diagnose operation of the industrial process, identify loose parts and/or degradation of industrial plant equipment, enable virtual sensing, calculate sensor response time using the noise analysis technique, and to verify sensor calibration using the cross calibration method and/or empirical and/or physical modeling.

An online monitoring system for industrial processes, such as nuclear power processes, including a data acquisition unit configured to sample output signals simultaneously from a plurality of process sensors, and a computing unit configured to record sampled output signals from the data acquisition unit and to cross-correlate the output signals from two or more of the process sensors to diagnose operation of the industrial process, identify loose parts and/or degradation of industrial plant equipment, enable virtual sensing, calculate sensor response time using the noise analysis technique, and to verify sensor calibration using the cross calibration method and/or empirical and/or physical modeling.

A resistive heater capable of delivering heat loads on the same order as those produced by in-pile nuclear fuel experiments. The heater rod provides the energy for high-temperature steady-state testing, as well as the power needed to simulate the transient pulse in the Transient Reactor Test Loop (TRTL) system. The resistive heater includes a removable housing, two or more thermal conductors in the housing; and one or more stabilizers coupled to the two or more thermal conductors to keep the two or more thermal conductors separated to avoid shorting, wherein the two or more thermal conductors are coupled to the housing via an inert gas (e.g., Helium). The two or more thermal conductors comprise a material with substantially zero infrared spectrum (e.g., sapphire, silica, or glass).