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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301D
Session Chair:
Xingang Zhao
Alternate Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Generative Model for Sensor Fault Detection in Nuclear Power Plant Accidents
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Jeonghun Choi (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Paper
Bridging the Data-Model Gap for HRA: Creating Bayesian Networks from HRA Data
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Vincent Philip Paglioni (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Implementing Component Degradations into a Modelica Model of an iPWR System to Develop Health Monitoring Techniques
1:50–2:15PM EDT
David Anderson (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Dynamic Model Agnostic Reliability Evaluation of Machine-Learning Models Integrated in Instrumentation and Control Systems
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Edward Chen (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
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