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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
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 F
Session Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao
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Automating Anomaly Detection for Target Systems at Spallation Neutron Source
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Anant Raj (ORNL), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Drew Winder (ORNL), Bryan Maldonado (ORNL), Allie Morris (ORNL), Willem Blokland (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL)
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Digital Twin Driven Nuclear Power Plant Health Monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Deepak Haste (Qualtech Systems, Inc.), Sudipto Ghoshal (Qualtech Systems, Inc.), Jonathan Caleb Hudson (Qualtech Systems, Inc.), Christopher Michael Norton (Qualtech Systems, Inc.), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Andrew Hess (Hess PHM Group)
Introduction of Key Features of Technical Specifications Operator Support System
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Nokyu Seong (Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Central Research Institute), Jaehee Lee (Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Central Research Institute)
Detecting Process Equipment Failures Using Acoustic Data and Machine Learning
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Jacob A. Farber (INL), Ahmad Y. Al Rashdan (INL)
General Trends Observed in Reactor Power Distribution Synthesis with a Response Function-Based Approach
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Anthony Birri (ORNL), K.C. Goetz (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
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