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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Jilang Miao
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
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Development of Verification Methodology for Thermo-Mechanical Solver of MERCURY Fuel Performance Code
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Dong-hwa Lee (KAERI), Sung-Uk Lee (KAERI), Hyochan Kim (KAERI)
Paper
Influence of Variance Reduction Techniques on the Wrong Results Obtained from Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations when Random Number Stride is Exceeded
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Wooil Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
FMI-Based Multi-Fidelity and Multi-Scale Simulations of a Nuclear Reactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Thomas Guilbaud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Wrong Results when Random Number Stride is Exceeded in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport: Reanalysis of Legacy Stride Exceedance Study
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Uncertainty Estimation by Correlated Sampling for the Neutronics Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors by the iDTMC Methodology
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Sunjoo Yoon (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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