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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Brendan M. Kochunas
Alternate Chair:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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Microreactor Load-following Reactivity Control with Super-twisting Sliding Mode Control
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Kamal K. Abdulraheem (University of Michigan Ann Arbor - 1906 Cooley Building), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. Michigan), Brendan M. Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan)
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Microreactor Automated Control System Test Bed Digital Architecture for Real-Time, Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Jono McConnell (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Wesley Williams (ORNL), Andrew Heim (INL)
Predicting Reactor Response to Control Actions for Autonomous Operation Using AI/ML
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Zachery T. Dahm (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Vasileos Theos (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Development of a Supervisory Control System as a Transition Technology Towards Autonomy in Plant Operations
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Lauren Fortier (MIT), Sacit M. Cetiner (INL)
A Risk-Informed Approach to Trustworthiness Assessment in Digital Twins-Based Autonomous Control
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Nicholas Cittadino (NCSU), Paridhi Athe (NCSU), Linyu Lin (INL), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU)
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