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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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DOE’s Wright appears before House subcommittee
Wright
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright testified before a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies, on May 7, to answer questions about the DOE budget and priories for fiscal year 2026.
Wright’s testimony: Wright said that the DOE was taking steps to accelerate innovation in commercial nuclear development. “In the past 100 days, DOE has issued two disbursements to support the reopening of Michigan’s Palisades nuclear energy plant. We allocated high-assay low-enriched uranium material to five U.S. advanced nuclear reactor developers to boost domestic reactor deployment.”
He added that it was imperative for the nation to strengthen its nuclear future and that he would take immediate action to accelerate the deployment of 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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