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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:15PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Brendan Kochunas
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 Baker (INL), Andrew Heim (INL), Jacob Hansen (INL), Kirby Hanson (INL), Benjamin Chase (INL)
Presented by Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Towards An FPGA Asynchronous Motor V/f Control Applied on Safety Functions for Nuclear Systems
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Eduardo Couto Montenegro (EDF), 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 Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan), Jamie 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
S.A. Mahmud (Univ. Utah), I. Nasim (INL), V. Agarwal (INL), S. Kasera (Univ. Utah), M. Ji (Univ. Utah)
Enhancing Autonomous Control of Microreactors Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Leo Tunkle (Univ. Michgan), Kamal Abdulraheem (Univ. Michgan), Linyu Lin (INL), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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), Anna C. Hall (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL)
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