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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Kane
Session Chair:
Sajedul Talukder
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
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Predictive Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Condition Monitoring of Active Components: A Reactor Coolant Pump Use Case
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Chaitee M. Godbole (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Syed B. Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plants: Challenges and Opportunities
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Holden Hyer (ORNL), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), Xingchang Zhang (INL), Austin D. Fleming (INL), Pattrick Calderoni (INL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
High-Temperature Magnetostrictive Acoustic Emission Transducer for Fuel Pin Burst Detection
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Bibo Zhong (INL), Joshua Daw (INL)
Advanced Manufactured Strain Sensors for Extreme Environments
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Timothy L. Phero (Boise State), Amey R. Khanolkar (INL), James A. Smith (INL), Michael D. McMurtrey (INL), David Estrada (Boise State University), Brian Jaques (Boise State)
Optimus-Q: Utilizing Blockchain Federated Learning in Adaptive Human Robots for Intelligent NPP Operations through Quantum Cryptography
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Sai Puppala (SIU), Ismail Hossain (University of Texas at El Paso), Md J. Alam (University of Texas at El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (Young Members Group), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
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