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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Modernizing I&C for operations and maintenance, one phase at a time
The two reactors at Dominion Energy’s Surry plant are among the oldest in the U.S. nuclear fleet. Yet when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, staff could raise a toast to the future. Surry was one of the first plants to file a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application, and in May 2021, it became official: the plant was licensed to operate for a full 80 years, extending its reactors’ lifespans into 2052 and 2053.
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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