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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Miami/Scottsdale
Session Chair:
Jason Castro
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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Secure Anomaly Detection in Advanced Reactor Through Quantum Federated Learning with Advanced Cryptography
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois Univ.), 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 (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso)
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Action-Based Prediction for Mitigation Actions in Severe Accident at Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Hyojin Kim (KAIST), Jonghyun Kim (KAIST)
Lessons Learned from Issues Affecting Radiation Monitors
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Christina Novogoratz (EPRI)
Hardware-Based Reference Signatures
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Jason Castro (EPRI)
MESAC - A Model-Based Approach for the Safety Analysis of Crane Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Hervé Mbonjo (GRS), Christian Korn (GRS), Patrick Gebhardt (GRS), Jaroslaw Shvab (GRS), Ewgenij Piljugin (GRS)
Cost-Effective Methods of Changing Instrumentation and Control Rooms from Analog to Digital in a Single Outage
2:40–3:00PM CDT
Otto P. Fest (OTEK Corporation)
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