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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|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Sajedul Talukder
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Vision-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnostic in Nuclear Power Plants Using Large Language Models
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Jean C. Tonday Rodriguez (Florida International University), Dipan Sadekeen (Florida International University), Mohammed A. Rahman (Florida International University), Syed B. Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Enhancing Learning for Nuclear Reactor Operator Trainees with Large Language Models
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Julianna M. White (NCSU), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
LLM-Powered Chatbot for Safety Compliance Assistance in Nuclear Power Plants
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Ismail Hossain (UTEP), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Md J. Alam (University of Texas at El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (Young Members Group), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
Automated Generation of System Code Inputs from P&IDs Using Vision-Language Models
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Akshay Dave (ANL), Tim Nguyen (ANL), Daniel O'Grady (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Evaluating Economic Impact: An Investment Tool for Large Language Model Integration in Workweek Management
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Chaitee M. Godbole (INL), John Johnson (University of Minnesota), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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