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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom F
Session Chair:
Diego Mandelli
Alternate Chair:
Jonghyun Kim
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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Harnessing Quantum Algorithms in Nuclear Engineering
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Samrendra Roy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (University of Texas El Paso), Syed B. Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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A Privacy-Aware Cyber Attack Detection Framework for Advanced Reactors Using Data Fusion and Quantum Deep Learning
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Md Jahangir Alam (UTEP), Ismail Hossain (University of Texas at El Paso), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Samrendra Roy (Young Members Group), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (UIUC), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
Data Analytics Methods to Measure Plant Outage Resilience
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Diego Mandelli (INL), Shawn W. St. Germain (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Svetlana Lawrence (INL), Norman J. Mapes (Battelle Energy Alliance/INL)
Capturing Historic Reliability Performance Through Graph Databases: A Model Based System Engineering Approach
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Diego Mandelli (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Chaitee M. Godbole (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Mohammad Movassat (OPG), Daniel Liang (OPG), Eddy Nur (OPG)
Artificial Intelligence Application for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Digital Upgrades for Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Christianna Howard (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Shawn Belling (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), John C. McCague (Sargent & Lundy, LLC)
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