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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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The Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) Upgrade, version 2.0 for TREAT
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Benjamin A. Baker (INL), Andrew Hiem (INL), Jacob Hansen (INL), Kirby Hanson (INL), Benjamin Chase (INL)
Presented by Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Paper
Towards An FPGA Asynchronous Motor V/f Control Applied on Critical (Category A) Nuclear Power Plant Ventilation Systems
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Eduardo Henrique Couto Montenegro (EDF R&D), Melha Bitam (EDF R&D), Youcef Mekahlia (EDF R&D)
Demonstration of Methodology for Advanced Autonomous Control in Flexible Power Operation of Multi-Unit SMRs
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
A Study on Co-existing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Data Transmission within a Nuclear Facility
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Syed A. Mahmud (University of Utah), Imtiaz Nasim (INL), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Lab), Sneha Kasera (University of Utah), Migyue Ji (University of Utah)
Enhancing Autonomous Control of Microreactors Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Leo Tunkle (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Kamal K. Abdulraheem (University of Michigan Ann Arbor - 1906 Cooley Building), Linyu Lin (INL), Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Mitigating Error Dependency with Hybrid System Operation: Quantifying Human Reliability Analysis
4:55–5:15PM CDT
Zeth duBois (University of Idaho), Roger Lew (University of Idaho)
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