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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
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Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Artificial Reasoning System for Symptom-Based Conditional Failure Probability Estimation Using Bayesian Network
Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Michael Golay (MIT)
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Nuclear Power Prognostic Model Assessment for Component Health Monitoring
Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Cody Walker (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Nancy Lybeck (INL)
Multi-Fault System Prognostics of Maintenance Dependent Processes in Nuclear Power Plants
Hang Xiao (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Alex Hines (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Fan Zhang (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), J. Wes Hines (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Combining System Architecture Modelling with Dynamic Process Simulation for Early Stage Fault and Effect Analysis
Joonas Linnosmaa (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), André A. Hauge (Institute for Energy Technology), Fabien Sechi (Institute for Energy Technology), Miki Sirola (Aalto Univ.)
A Process to Assess Latent Failure Risk in Sequential Control Logic During a FMEA
M. McCarthy (Kinectrics), D. K. Masrani (Kinectrics), A. Vieira (Kinectrics)
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