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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine H
Session Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Developing a Machine Learning Benchmark Using Real-Time Data from the PUR-1 Reactor for Nuclear Applications
10:00–10:20AM PDT
William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Zachery Dahm (Purdue Univ.), Oliver Buss (Nuclear Energy Agency), Catalina Anghel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Kamal Moravej (Canadian National Laboratory), Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Basma Foad (McMaster Univ.), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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ContextGPT: Predictive Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant with Contextually-Informed Situational Understanding
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Raisa Bentay Hossain (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Farid Ahmed (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jahangir Alam (Southern Illinois Univ.), Sajedul Talukder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Development of AI-Based Decision-Making Support Technology to Prevent Human Error in Nuclear Power Plant
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Seo Ryong Koo (KAERI), Young Ho Chae (KAERI)
Enhancing the Cybersecurity of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants Through Generative AI and Large Language Models
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Raisa Bentay Hossain (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ismail Hossain (Southern Illinois Univ.), Sajedul Talukder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Adaptive Machine Learning-Based Threat Intelligence in Nuclear Facilities (AML-TIN): A Framework for Enhanced Cybersecurity in Nuclear Computing Environments
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Alaa M. Alotaibi (Southern Illinois Univ.), Farid Ahmed (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois Univ.), Sajedul Talukder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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