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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Kane
Session Chair:
Sajedul Talukder
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
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Predictive Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Condition Monitoring of Active Components: A Reactor Coolant Pump Use Case
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chaitee Godbole (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plants: Challenges and Opportunities
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Holden C. Hyer (ORNL), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), Xingchang Zhang (INL), Austin D. Fleming (INL), Pattrick Calderoni (INL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
Advanced Manufactured Strain Sensors for Extreme Environments
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Timothy L. Phero (Boise State University), Amey R. Khanolkar (INL), James A. Smith (INL), Michael D. McMurtrey (INL), David Estrada (Boise State University), Brian J. Jaques (Boise State)
Optimus-Q: Utilizing Federated Learning in Adaptive Robots for Intelligent Advanced Reactor Operations Through Quantum Cryptography
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Sai Puppala (SIU), Ismail Hossain (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Jahangir Alam (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
High-Temperature Magnetostrictive Acoustic Emission Transducer for Fuel Pin Burst Detection
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Bibo Zhong (INL), Joshua Daw (INL)
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