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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Semi-Automated Knowledge Capture and Representation for the Development of Knowledge Based Systems
A. Young (Univ. of Strathclyde), G. West (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Brown (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Stephen (Univ. of Strathclyde), A. Duncan (The Alan Turing Institute), C. Michie (Univ. of Strathclyde), S. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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Trusting Machine Learning in Nuclear Plant Control: A Reasoning-Based Discrepancy Checker
Botros N. Hanna (New Mexico State Univ.), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State Univ.), Paridhi Athe (North Carolina State Univ.), Tran C. Son (New Mexico State Univ.), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State Univ.)
Introduction of Analytics, Decision-Support, and Advanced Procedure Tool (ADAPT) and the Cultural Implications it Poses to the Nuclear Industry
R. Hill (INL), C. Kovesdi (INL), Z. Spielman (INL), J. Mohon (INL), T. Miyake (INL), K. Le Blanc (INL)
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