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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
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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