Year
2008
Abstract
Projected virtual reality is an innovative and increasingly viable option for addressing many of the challenges faced by both nuclear facility operators and safeguards inspectors. The use of projected virtual reality simulation for facility operations is multi-faceted and has a myriad of potential applications from training and familiarization with facility operations to safety and risk mitigation to diversion path analysis, and potentially, to design information verification. The interactive nature of the models developed, as well as the photo-realistic, high fidelity, immersive character of the virtual experience, provides a new form of access to facilities that could reduce operations interruptions without limiting inspector insight into activities at the facility. Open platform development and the establishment of abstract, or generic, interfaces for the virtual simulation framework allows the safeguards community to leverage the broad spectrum of expertise that exists throughout the international safeguards community.