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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
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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