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  1. Assessing Safety and Sustainability of a Monitoring System for Nuclear Waste Management
    Di Giovanni, M., Verde, L., Campanile, L., Romoli, M., Sabbarese, C., & Marrone, S. (2025). Assessing Safety and Sustainability of a Monitoring System for Nuclear Waste Management [Article]. IEEE Access, 13, 120486–120505. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586735
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    Nowadays, nuclear technologies are increasingly being integrated into industry, healthcare and manufacturing. As a side effect, waste materials are produced according to standard processes which are subject to international regulations. One of the most critical phases is the pre-disposal, due to the uncertainty related to the evolution of the materials and their potential impact on environmental protection. This paper introduces the architecture of a monitoring system able to accomplish safety goals and to guarantee energetic sustainability. The possibility of defining different system configurations (e. g., sensor scheduling policies, geometry of the sites, trustworthiness of the sensors) fosters a high adaptability to several monitoring scenarios, being characterised by different safety and sustainability levels. A methodology, integrating a model-based approach with data collection and processing, is proposed to quantitatively evaluate system configurations. This methodology is based on the definition of two metrics — one for safety and one for sustainability — and an assessment model. The model computes the metrics considering geometry of the place, scheduling and trustworthiness of monitoring sensors. This is a first step in the construction of a Decision Support System able to aid human operators in assessing system configurations and finding possible safety/sustainability trade-offs. A case study is used to show the feasibility of the approach: some configurations are evaluated on the real plant, placed at Řež in the Czech Republic, assessing them on the base of the defined metrics. © 2025 The Authors.
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  2. Supporting the Development of Digital Twins in Nuclear Waste Monitoring Systems
    Di Giovanni, M., Campanile, L., D’Onofrio, A., Marrone, S., Marulli, F., Romoli, M., Sabbarese, C., & Verde, L. (2023). Supporting the Development of Digital Twins in Nuclear Waste Monitoring Systems [Conference paper]. Procedia Computer Science, 225, 3133–3142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.10.307
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    In a world whose attention to environmental and health problems is very high, the issue of properly managing nuclear waste is of a primary importance. Information and Communication Technologies have the due to support the definition of the next-generation plants for temporary storage of such wasting materials. This paper investigates on the adoption of one of the most cutting-edge techniques in computer science and engineering, i.e. Digital Twins, with the combination of other modern methods and technologies as Internet of Things, model-based and data-driven approaches. The result is the definition of a methodology able to support the construction of risk-aware facilities for storing nuclear waste. © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
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