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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
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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