General Electric (GE) Global Research

General Electric (GE) Global Research, in partnership with Lumitron Technologies, Orano, and Sandia National Laboratory, will research an innovative safeguards solution, Monochromatic Assays Yielding Enhanced Reliability (MAYER), for aqueous reprocessing. MAYER will leverage a novel, compact, high-flux, low-bandwidth laser Compton scattering photon source for ultra-fast, high-precision (<1% uncertainty and <2 minutes) in situ fissile elemental and isotopic measurements; design a unique aqueous reprocessing facility safeguards digital twin (DT) to facilitate continuous, on-demand artificial intelligence training to lower standard errors in materials inventory, predict adverse events, and enable mitigation before a required facility shutdown; and explore a distributed ledger technology to ensure safeguards for sensor data security, transparency, and integrity for regulatory auditing and DT usage.