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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
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.
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