Currently, a lot of research is going in the field sign language recognition. Recognition gesture poses serious challenge to system due inconsistent illuminance and background conditions, different skin colours hand each person has his/her own trait making gesture. It gets even more difficult with Two Hand Indian Sign Language (THISL) representation both hands. There no proper THISL dataset available public. So, we present consisting 26 gestures representing English alphabet. This consists...

Nuclear technologies have the potential to play a major role in transition global net-zero society. Their primary advantage is capability deliver controllable 24/7 energy on demand. However, as prerequisite for successful worldwide application, significant innovation will be required create nuclear systems of 21st century, need hour. The pros and cons are discussed analysed at different levels – societal public recognition well scientific/engineering economic level assure demand...

Nuclear technologies have the potential to play a major role in transition global net-zero society. Their primary advantage is capability deliver controllable 24/7 energy on demand. However, as prerequisite for successful worldwide application, significant innovation will be required create nuclear systems of 21st century, need hour. The pros (low harmful emissions, high reliability, low operational expenses, and density) cons (environmental damage, fuel waste disposal concerns, limited...

Breed and Burn (B&B) fuel cycle in molten salt reactors (MSRs) qualifies this reactor type as one of the best candidates to be developed for Gen-IV R&D program. This feature can approached by employing a closed application spent nuclear burner; features promise sustainable clean energy future. In study, complete package has been calculate core inventory, burnup, clean-up systems during their lifetime. To achieve this, iMAGINE-3BIC (“iMAGINE 3D-Reg Burnup & Inventory Calculator...

The UK government and many international experts have pointed out that nuclear energy has an important role to play in the transition towards a decarbonised system since it is only freely manageable very low-carbon technology with 24/7 availability complement renewables. Besides current investments light water reactor technologies, we need innovation for improved fuel usage reduced waste creation, like offered by iMAGINE, required broad success of technologies. To allow quick progress...

The UK government and many international experts have pointed out that nuclear energy has an important role to play in the transition towards a decarbonized system since it is only freely manageable very low-carbon technology with 24/7 availability complement renewables. Besides current investments light water reactor technologies, we need innovation for improved fuel usage reduced waste creation, like offered by iMAGINE, required broad success of technologies. To allow quick progress into...

Nuclear power's role as a reliable, baseload, low-carbon source and its importance in achieving clean energy goals are being increasingly recognized with growing urgency around decarbonization of the global systems. However, to deliver long-term sustainable solution, it is essential develop innovative nuclear technologies for improving fuel utilization reducing waste disposal challenge. Zero Power Reactors (ZPR) an initial step developing new because they allow testing refinement safe...

Molten salt reactors (MSRs), as one of the six main technologies Gen IV, can meet broad area sustainability, economics, safety and reliability, proliferation resistance physical protection goals. One first challenges in designing molten fast (MSFRs) is selection an appropriate fuel system based on envisaged applications objectives. In this study’s series, a full-scope evaluation has been conducted about employing either chloride or fluoride fuels competitors’ candidates for MSFR designs. Two...

The demand for improving the nuclear waste management has since long been identified as one of major hurdles widespread use energy. Nuclear management, through partitioning and transmutation (P&T) researched 1990ies with being a pre-requisite process. Recently, an innovative approach reactors directly operating on spent fuel, iMAGINE, proposed which could deliver aims P&T side effect to more efficient energy production in future. results shown here confirm that it is possible...

Structural materials in fast reactors with harsh radiation environments due to high energy neutrons—compared thermal reactors—potentially suffer from a higher degree of damage. This damage can change the thermophysical and mechanical properties and, as result, alter their performance effective lifetime, some cases leading disintegration. These phenomena jeopardize safety thus need be investigated. In this study, effect on vessels molten salt (MSFR) was evaluated based two fundamental...

Background: Thurso/Caithness in the United Kingdom has gone through a lot of changes and transitions last decades. The decision to build nuclear reactor test facility 1950’s Dounreay/Caithness UK, as well current phase decommissioning impacted not only technology development but also social fabric community individuals within it. This study aimed explore lived experiences people by project at Dounreay. results will form basis for discussion about locating future experimental or facilities,...

Method of characteristics (MOC) is one the most efficient deterministic technique for high fidelity neutronic analysis complex and heterogeneous reactor problems. However, poor convergence speeds MOC source iteration scheme, especially problems with large scattering to transport cross-section ratio are well known. This creates a serious hindrance its effective application realistic Initially, optimally diffusive coarse mesh finite difference (odCMFD) method was employed improving performance...

The demand for improving the nuclear waste management has since long been identified as one of major hurdles widespread use energy. Nuclear management, through partitioning and transmutation (P&T), researched 1990s with being a prerequisite process. Recently, an innovative approach reactors directly operating on spent, or nowadays often called used fuel, iMAGINE proposed which could deliver aims P&T side effect to more efficient sustainable energy production in future. A HELIOS model...

Thurso/Caithness in the United Kingdom has gone through a lot of changes and transitions last decades. The decision to build nuclear reactor test facility 1950’s Dounreay/Caithness UK, as well current phase decommissioning impacted not only technology development but also social fabric community individuals within it. This study aimed explore lived experiences people by project at Dounreay. results will form basis for discussion about locating future experimental or facilities, possibly...

Remote decoding techniques based solely on polling waste a considerable amount of time in the bit-reading process, which is undesirable. Better involving interrupts have been proposed, but, these still some precious execution time. In this paper, we propose technique consumes negligible (few μs) bit reading thus, utilizing all available for main task.

Nuclear technologies have a strong potential and unique role to play in delivering reliable low carbon energy for future net-zero society. However, assure the sustainability required long-term success, nuclear will need deliver innovative solutions as proposed iMAGINE. One of most attractive features, but also key challenge envisaged highly integrated system is demand driven salt clean-up system. The work described provides an insight into interplay between reactor operation plutonium...

The visual mechanisms behind our ability to distinguish translucent and opaque materials is not fully understood. Disentanglement of the contributions surface reflectance subsurface light transport still image structure an ill-posed problem. While overwhelming majority works addressing translucency perception use static stimuli, behavioral studies show that human observers tend move objects assess their translucency. Therefore, we hypothesize appear more less when observed in motion than...

Nuclear technologies have strong potential and a unique role to play in delivering reliable low carbon energy enable net-zero society for future generations. However, assure the sustainability required its long-term success, nuclear will need deliver innovative solutions as proposed iMAGINE. One of most attractive features, but also key challenge envisaged highly integrated system iMAGINE, is demand driven salt clean-up based on principles reverse reprocessing. The work described provides an...