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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ORNL, INL make deals on AI for nuclear licensing
The United States has tight new deadlines—18 months, max—for licensing commercial reactor designs. The Department of Energy is marshaling the nuclear expertise and high-performance computing assets of its national laboratories, in partnership with private tech companies, to develop generative AI tools and large-scale simulations that could help get nuclear reactor designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process—or the DOE’s own reactor pilot program. “Accelerate” and “streamline” are the verbs of choice in recent announcements from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, as they describe plans with Atomic Canyon, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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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