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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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U.K. vision for fusion
The U.K. government has announced a series of initiatives to progress fusion to commercialization, laid out in a fusion strategy policy paper published March 16. A New Energy Revolution: The UK’s Plan for Delivering Fusion Energy begins to describe how the government’s £2.5 billion (about $3.4 billion) investment in fusion research and development over five years will be allocated.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|California
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
According to both U.S. NRC and DOE, the nuclear industry has yet to fully leverage the recent advances in machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI) techniques, and Digital Twin (DT) will play a significant role in risk-informed decision-making in this regard. For example, "NRC FY2021-23 Planned Research Activities" and "NRC Future Focused Research" state that "Methodology and Evaluation Tools for Digital Twin Applications" is one of the top priority strategic areas. However, the major challenges related to DT include but are not limited to (a) Incorporating trustworthy data analytics algorithm, (b) Treatment of noisy or erroneous data and data unavailability, (c) Uncertainty quantification, (d) Robust optimization, and (e) Update module in DT by solving the "On-the-fly Inverse Problem." This session will discuss the DT-enabling technologies and components for nuclear systems.
Syed ALAM
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Prashant Jain
ORNL
Zahra Mohaghegh
Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tanwi Mallick
ANL
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