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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Ten EU countries call for nuclear to be marked ‘sustainable’
Ten of the 27 member countries of the European Union recently sent a letter to the European Commission calling for nuclear power to be labeled as sustainable in a new rulemaking that pertains to powering data centers and artificial intelligence.
While the EC’s decision could have significant impact on the future deployment of nuclear across the continent, this call to action also represents a broader positive reconsideration of nuclear power in Europe in recent years.
Technical Session|Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls (HFICD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 15
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.)
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Enabling Real-Time Operation of the PUR-1 Digital Twin via Surrogate Models of High-Fidelity Simulations
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.), Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Noah Fillgrove, Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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Digital Twin Development for an Experimental Microreactor Thermal System
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Matthew Barrows (TAMU), Jian Tao (TAMU), Joseph Seo (TAMU), Hansol Kim (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Energy-Efficient Scientific Foundation Model for Advanced Reactor Digital Twins
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Jay P. Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jason Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jaewan Park (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam
Physics-Constrained Digital Twin for Predicting Reactor Power State of Research Reactor
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Quinnan Hetrick, Lei R. Cao (Ohio State)
Virtual Sensing for Dynamic Systems: Enabling Digital Twin–Driven Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Monitoring for Advanced Reactors
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sai Puppala (Univ. of Texas, El Paso), Jay Phil Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Md Jahangir Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Syed Bahauddin Alam