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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Holtec pulls out of New Mexico SNF interim storage project
Holtec International has confirmed it is canceling plans to build a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico. Named the HI-STORE CISF, the facility would have stored up to 10,000 canisters of commercial SNF on land owned by the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA) near the towns of Carlsbad and Hobbs.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Gyunyoung Heo
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Detecting Fire with Machine Learning-Enabled Visual Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plant Environments
L. Michael Griffel (INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Roger Boza (INL)
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Sensor Degradation Detection Using Visual Timeseries and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
C. J. Wallace (Univ. of Strathclyde), S.D.J. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
Monitoring of Thermal Mixing Tee Sensors with LSTM Neural Networks
Victoria Ankel (ANL), Stella Pantopoulou (ANL), Matthew Weathered (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Object Detection in a Framework for Automated Nuclear Waste Classification
Seonaid Hume (Univ. of Strathclyde), Gordon Dobie (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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