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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hanford contractor settles fraud suit for $3.45M
Hanford Site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) has agreed to pay the Department of Justice $3.45 million as part of a settlement agreement resolving allegations that HMIS overcharged the Department of Energy for millions of dollars in labor hours at the nuclear site in Washington state.
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:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Alternate Chair:
Brendan M. Kochunas
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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A Risk-Informed Approach to Trustworthiness Assessment in Digital Twins-Based Autonomous Control
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Nicholas Cittadino (NCSU), Paridhi Athe (NCSU), Linyu Lin (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
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Microreactor Load-Following Reactivity Control with a Second-Order Sliding Mode Control
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Kamal K. Abdulraheem (Univ. Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. Michigan), Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
Microreactor Automated Control System Test Bed Digital Architecture for Real-Time, Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation
10:40–11:00AM 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
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Zachery Dahm (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Vasileos Theos (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Development of a Supervisory Control System as a Transition Technology Towards Autonomy in Plant Operations
11:20–11:40AM CDT
L. Fortier (MIT), S. Cetiner (INL)
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