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-# 2025-08-01
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-## Morning Brief
-Yesterday I finished two additional thesis ideas and got
-some more reading done 
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-- [ ] Fill out health insurance enrollment
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-# 2025-08-04
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-## Morning Brief
-I didn't do shit. But I emailed Dan that I'd be OOO
-Wednesday and Thursday for the motorcycle course.
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-I'm finishing those fucking thesis ideas today. ON GOD.
-[[thesis-ideas-2025-07-30]]
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-I'm' also supposed to have a date with Miranda today, but
-she hasn't texted me back. Interesting. Jackie also
-complimented my socks and show combo. That was nice. I
-showed her and Natan [Angus](ourcowangus.com).
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-# 2025-08-05
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-## Morning Brief
-I didn't finish the thesis ideas from yesterday. Oopsie!
-Today is different though. Curently, I'm working from
-home^*, which really means I'm working in a coffee shop on
-Washington road. I'm at the Orbis Cafe, where I purchased a
-cinnamon roll and a cappucino. The caffeine has yet to hit,
-but when it does, I'll be cooking I'm sure. This is a nice
-spot and it's very relaxing to get things done while other
-people are around. I like this a lot, and perhaps I should
-do this more often while I'm at school too. 
-
-Anyways, Dan is OOO taking time off while he can before the
-fall semester. Who can blame him?
-
-Patrick and I discussed more PINN stuff yesterday. I should
-make a simple PINN demonstration.
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Zettelkasten/Permanent Notes/thesis-ideas.md

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-## **Data-Driven Fault Detection Using High-Assurance Digital Twins** 
+## **Data-Driven Model Verification for High-Assurance Digital Twins** 
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 ### Goals:
-The goal of this research is to use machine learning to
-identify system faults of a reactor control system during
-runtime. A digital twin will be compared to measurements
-from a real plant to identify issues such as coolant losses,
-sensor and actuator failures, or component degredation so
-that safety strategic decisions about the plant can be made
-autonomously.
 
 ### Outcomes:
-For this research to be successful, I will accomplish the
-following:
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-- Create a simulation suite for the Small Modular Advanced
-  High Temperature Reactor (SmAHTR) to simulate fault
-  conditions of sensors, actuators, and component degradation.
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-- Develop a physics informed neural network (PINN) approach
-  to evaluate physics discrepancies in measured signals and
-  to estimate physically relevant parameters to determine
-  real system divergence from the nominal plant. 
-
-- Realize a proof of concept autonomous controller than can
-  react to fault conditions by switching to different
-control modes rather than only responding with reactor
-shutdown.
 
 ### Impact:
-The nuclear energy industry's largest expense is operations
-and maintenance (O&M). These costs include typical reactor repair
-and refueling, the labor involved to complete such
-maintenance, and finally the labor involved in operating the
-reactor itself. Currently the largest of these O&M expenses
-is the labor and part cost used in maintenance, while large
-nuclear reactor facilities require a modest reactor operator
-budget per megawatt of energy produced. The advent of small
-modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors (MRs) will change
-these economics significantly. 
-
-As SMRs and MRs become more common, the cost of repair and
-maintenance should reduce dramatically as nuclear power
-componnets will become modular, replaceable parts instead of
-the bespoke reactor designs currently operating. Operator
-wages, however, can be expected to increase without
-introducing greater controller autonomy. SMRs and MRs are
-much smaller output designs per reactor core, and if they
-are required to employ the same size reactor operator team
-as a conventional large reactor, will suffer from much
-larger operator expense per megawatt. Greater controller
-autonomy can solve this problem by unloading some reactor
-control responsibilities from the operator, and therein
-reduce labor consumption.
-
-<# TO DO #>
-Finally reactor safety can be improved by greater autonomy
-yada yada find some reasons to back this up.
 
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