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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Droughts, wildfires continue to impact power plants in Europe
The effects of this summer’s historic heatwave continue to be felt across Europe. Soaring temperatures and drought in the region have led to elevated river temperatures, low river levels, and wildfires, which have significantly impacted nuclear power plants across the continent.
France’s Electricité de France has reported elevated river temperatures which have forced production cuts, including recent cuts at Golfech, and nuclear power plants in Hungary, Romania, and the United Kingdom, have faced exceptional challenges in recent days.
Technical Session|Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls (HFICD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 15
Session Chair:
Jay Phil Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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