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The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series.
Watch the full webinar here.
Technical Session|Panel|Best Practices and Cautionary Tales for AI/ML
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Molly Brown
Session Chair:
Tara M. Pandya (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Madicken Munk
Ongoing advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have spurred innovative approaches to nuclear engineering challenges. AI methods have been proposed for applications including reactor monitoring and control, core loading optimization, reduced-order transport, nuclear data evaluation, and detecting bias within computational results. While early results entice further exploration in some cases, the extent to which AI methods have the capacity to displace traditional numerical techniques is unclear, especially as AI methods come with their own unique challenges including explainability, uncertainty quantification, data availability, reproducibility, and potential vulnerability to adversarial reprogramming.
This panel discussion will bring together experts from AI and nuclear engineering to discuss the limitations of AI for nuclear applications. The panel will address questions such as:
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