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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Bipartisan Fusion Energy Act pushes for regulatory clarity
Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) introduced the Fusion Energy Act (S. 4151) last month with a bipartisan group of cosponsors—John Cornyn (R., Texas), Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Todd Young (R., Ind.), and Patty Murray (D., Wash.). The legislation would codify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulatory authority over commercial fusion energy systems to streamline the creation of clear federal regulations that will support the development of commercial fusion power plants—and would require a report within one year on a study of risk- and performance-based, design-specific licensing frameworks for “mass-manufactured fusion machines.
“Congress must do everything in its power to ensure continued U.S. leadership in developing commercial fusion energy facilities,” said Padilla as he introduced the bill. “The Fusion Energy Act would provide regulatory certainty for investors as the NRC develops and streamlines frameworks for such facilities.”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301C
Session Chair:
Xingang Zhao
Alternate Chair:
Daniel G. Cole
Session Organizer:
Brent D. Shumaker
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Knowledge-Informed Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting of Dynamical Engineered Systems
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Bryan Maldonado Puente (ORNL), Siyan Liu (ORNL), Seung-Hwan Lim (ORNL), William Gurecky (ORNL), Dan Lu (ORNL), Matthew Howell (ORNL), Frank Liu (ORNL), Wesley Williams (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL)
Paper
Quantifying Uncertainty of Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Decision Making for Operations and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plant
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Ryan M. Spangler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Development of a Virtual Sensor for Leading Edge Flow Meter Measurements in Nuclear Power Plants
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Christopher Guillotte (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brian Moazen (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Zachary Becker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Presented by Ryan O’Hagan (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Using Machine Learning to Extract and Normalize Historic Maintenance Data from Work Descriptions
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Nicholas Zwiryk (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Steven Yurkovich (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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