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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NC State releases feasibility study for new research and test reactor
North Carolina State University has completed a feasibility study for its planned advanced research and test reactor. The $3 million study, which was undertaken by the university at the direction of the North Carolina General Assembly, is described in the full report and includes recommendations and projected costs and timelines.
Reactor type: NC State prefers the new reactor to be of “a multipurpose advanced sodium-cooled mixed/coupled spectrum design,” according to the report. Such a design would make the reactor “the only sodium-cooled fast research and test reactor in the country.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|El Capitan B
Session Chair:
Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Fan Zhang
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
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Root Cause Analysis for Condition Monitoring Using Bayesian Networks
Abhimanyu Kapuria (Univ. Pittsburgh), Ryan M. Spangler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Robert S. Lois (Univ. Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (Univ. Pittsburgh)
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Digital Twin Reliability Diagnostics for SC-HTGR Using Metroscope
Sean Kolesar (Framatome), Todd Matthews (Framatome), Pascal Brocheny (Framatome)
Toward Health Management of Active Components During Operational Transients in SMRs
Matthew Scott (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Operations and Maintenance Decision-Making with Dynamic Bayesian Networks and Monte Carlo Tree Search
Ryan M. Spangler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhimanyu Kapuria (Univ. Pittsburgh), Robert S. Lois (Univ. Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Mitigating Risks for Nuclear Power Plant Supply Chains Using Particle Filters and Bayesian Networks
Robert S. Lois (Univ. Pittsburgh), Ryan M. Spangler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhimanyu Kapuria (Univ. Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (Univ. Pittsburgh)
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