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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Technical Session|Methods Development
Wednesday, July 23, 2025|8:00–9:40AM EDT|Gulf Room
Session Chair:
Vincent Penkrot
Alternate Chair:
Tamer Bahadir
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Benchmark of SIMULATE5-K Against Frigg Loop Experiments
8:00–8:25AM EDT
Gerardo Grandi (Studsvik)
Presented by Petra Mala (Studsvik)
Paper
Improvement of the Cross-Section Reconstruction Model in PWR Core Calculation Code
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Kento Yamamoto (Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd.), Yasuhiro Kodama (Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd.), Koji Ito (Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd.), Hideaki Hyoudou (Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd.), Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.), Yuya Inagaki (Hokkaido Univ.)
Verification of Nodal Transient Code SIMULATE5-K against the NEACRP Control Rod Ejection Accident Benchmark
8:50–9:15AM EDT
P. Mala (Studsvik), T. Bahadir (Studsvik), G. M. Grandi (Studsvik)
Progression Problems for the Verification of Optimization Code Performance
9:15–9:40AM EDT
David Kropaczek (Veracity Nuclear), Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Aaron Graham (Veracity Nuclear), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear)
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