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The mission of the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences (DES) Division is to promote the development and use of those skills and technologies associated with the use of nuclear energy and the optimal management and stewardship of the environment, sustainable development, decommissioning, remediation, reutilization, and long-term surveillance and maintenance of nuclear-related installations, and sites. The target audience for this effort is the membership of the Division, the Society, and the public at large.
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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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19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Sai Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Pilots' Readiness to Fly - Alcohol Detection Assisted by AI Facial Recognition Technology
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Yanbing Chen (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Mingyi Wang (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Joao Souza D. Garcia (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Shuzhen Luo (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
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Complex System Diagnostics Using LLM-Informed Models and Knowledge Graphs
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Saman Marandi (University of Maryland), Yu-Shu Hu (Consultant), Mohammad Modarres (University of Maryland)
Causality Mining from Text Reports with Fine-Tuned Large Language Model
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Shahidur R. Sohag (University of Idaho), Min Xian (University of Idaho), Tao Wang (University of Idaho), Shoukun Sun (University of Idaho), Zhegang Ma (INL)
Automation Trustworthiness and Transparency in Nuclear Power Plants: Definitions, Methodologies, and Case Studies
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Muhammad Hammad Khalid (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Ha H. Bui (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Seyed-A. Reihani (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Artificial Neural Network-Based Approach for Computing Fussell-Vesely Importance Measures in Fault Tree Analysis
11:20–11:40AM CDT
xingyu xiao (Tsinghua Univeristy), Wenjing Li (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., LTD), Peng Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ben Qi (Tsinghua Univeristy), Jingang Liang (INET, Tsinghua University), Jiejuan Tong (INET, Tsinghua University), Haitao Wang (National Tsinghua University)
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