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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Operation, Performance and Reliability Management
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Melanie Joseph (Studsvik)
Session Organizers:
Chad J. Boyer (EPRI)
Track Organizers:
Alternate Chair:
Temi Adeyeye (TerraPower)
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Physics Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Improved Control of Transient Maneuvers in Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Aidan Rigby (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael J. Wagner (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Daniel Mikkelson (INL), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Statistical and Neural Network for Real Sensor-Data-Driven Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Applications
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Imtiaz Nasim (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Joshua E. Daw (INL), Mingyue Ji (Univ. Utah), Sneha Kasera Kumar (Univ. Utah)
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Physics-Based Machine Learning Framework for Inferring Remaining Useful Life of Feedwater Heaters
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Yeni Li (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Using Generative AI to Implement the Discrepancy Checker for a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Paridhi Athe (NCSU), Linyu Lin (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
Digital-Twin-Enabling Technologies for Online Condition Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant Components
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Edward Chen (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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