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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom F
Session Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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Knowledge-Driven Explainable AI for Automated Defect Detection in Nuclear Reactor Components
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Andrew Young (University of Strathclyde), Jaime Zabalza (University of Strathclyde), Zhouxiang Fei (University of Strathclyde), Graeme M. West (University of Strathclyde), Paul Murray (University of Strathclyde), Stephen McArthur (University of Strathclyde)
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System-Level Prognostics with Explainable Artificial Intelligence
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Ark O. Ifeanyi (University of Tennessee), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mattia Zanotelli (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
AI for Interpreting Nuclear Power Plant Documents for Power Uprates
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Norman J. Mapes (Battelle Energy Alliance/INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Kellen Giraud (INL), Ahmad A. Rashdan (INL), Marcio D. Queiroz (INL)
Proximity-Based Anomaly Detection Using Graph Neural Networks for NPP Abnormal Operations
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Jeonghun Choi (Korea atomic energy research institute), Seo Ryong Koo (Korea atomic energy research institute)
Role of Uncertainty Quantification in the Explainability of Large Language Models for the Nuclear Industry
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Nancy J. Lybeck (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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