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November 17–21, 2024
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Ian Wall—ANS member since 1964
Ian Wall early in his career . . .
I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1958. Nuclear power was viewed favorably at the time, so I took a 1-year course on the subject. I was then offered fellowships at Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and thought the latter would be more interesting, so I moved to Cambridge, Mass., to study nuclear engineering. After completing my doctorate in 1964, I joined the American Nuclear Society and took a job with General Electric, then in San Jose, Calif.
In 1967, GE assigned me to explore the use of probability in reactor safety. At that time, the prevailing opinion was that the probability of a severe accident was infinitesimally small and the consequences would be catastrophic.
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)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
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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