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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, July 23, 2025|8:00–9:40AM EDT|Palm Room
Session Chair:
Jonathan M. Nistor
Alternate Chair:
James J. Tusar
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Thermal Limit Modeling for Core Design in Boiling Water Reactors Using Deterministic and Machine Learning Approaches
8:00–8:25AM EDT
M. Rizki Oktavian (Blue Wave AI Labs), Michael J. Mueterthies (Blue Wave AI Labs), Charles Karlson (Blue Wave AI Labs), Maria Berardi (Blue Wave AI Labs), Anirudh Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), Phil McCalley (Blue Wave AI Labs), Jordan Heim (Blue Wave AI Labs), Antti Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Thomas Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), Jonathan Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs)
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Design of Boiling Water Reactor Equilibrium Cycles using Genetic Algorithms with PARCS and Neural Network Surrogates
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Michael J. Mueterthies (Blue Wave AI Labs), M. Rizki Oktavian (Blue Wave AI Labs), Maria Berardi (Blue Wave AI Labs), Charles Karlson (Blue Wave AI Labs), Nathanael Hudson (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Peter Yarsky (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Nazila Tehrani (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Randall Dunavant (Southern Nuclear Co.), Aaron Phillippe (Southern Nuclear Co.), Ashley Thompson (Southern Nuclear Co.), Phil McCalley (Blue Wave AI Labs), Anirudh Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), Jordan Heim (Blue Wave AI Labs), Antti Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Thomas Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), Jonathan Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs)
Investigation on Dimension Reduction Techniques for Visualization of Reactor Core Design Space
8:50–9:15AM EDT
Juan C. Luque-Gutierrez (NCSU), Jake Mikouchi-Lopez (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
Development of CIPS Prediction Model of Nuclear Reactor Core Operation by Applying ViT and Encoder-Decoder
9:15–9:40AM EDT
Dongmin Yun (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Sang-Rae Moon (KHNP-CRI), Sung Jin Jeong (Pusan Nat'l Univ.), Hyun Chul Lee (Pusan Nat'l Univ.), Jihun Kim (BotBot Inc.), Ji Woo Lee (Universal Co.), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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