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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
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:
Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
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Janet Davis (ANS)
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Physics-Based Automated Reasoning for Health Monitoring: Sensor Set Selection
R. Vilim (ANL), T. Nguyen (ANL), R. Ponciroli (ANL), H. Wang (ANL)
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A Parallel Capability Using Genetic Algorithm for Sensor Assignment Optimization with Process-Constrained Data-Analytic Diagnosis
Yuxuan Liu (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan), Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Hubert Ley (ANL), Richard Vilim (ANL)
A Model-Based Symbolic Inference for Sensor Deployment Optimization for Fault Detection of the EBR-II Reactor
Xiaoxu Diao (The Ohio State Univ.), Pavan Kumar Vaddi (The Ohio State Univ.), Boyuan Li (The Ohio State Univ.), Wei Gao (The Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (The Ohio State Univ.)
Physics-Informed Machine Learning-Aided System Space Discretization
Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
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