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12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session|Panel
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Ryan S. Flamand (NuScale)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey C. Joe
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (ANS)
This session features a real-time demonstration of the NuScale digital control room simulator. Mr. Ryan Flamand, Plant Operations Supervisor at NuScale, has been leading a team that has developed and maintained the NuScale digital control room simulator, and is the featured speaker for this session. Ryan will demonstrate how the NuScale simulator works, explain its underlying design philosophy and concept of operations, and answer questions from the audience.
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