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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
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Carol Smidts (The Ohio State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
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Dan Goldberg (ANS)
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Model-Checking I&C Logics - Insights from Over a Decade of Projects in Finland
Antti Pakonen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Accessible Formal Verification for Design Assurance of Model Based Critical I&C Systems
Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Athira Varma Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
A Pseudo-Exhaustive Software Testing Framework for Embedded Digital Devices in Nuclear Power
Athira Varma Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Richard Kuhn (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Brandon Simons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aidan Collins (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Richard Hite (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Raghu Kacker (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Model-Based Design Assurance and Verification in the Context of IEC-61508 SIL- 4 Standard
Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Athira Varma Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Richard Hite (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Christopher S. Deloglos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ashraf Tantawy (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Matt Gibson (EPRI), Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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