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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Alternate Chair:
Hongbin Sun
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Enhanced Video-Level Anomaly Feature Detection for Nuclear Power Plant Component Inspections Using the Latency Mechanism
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Zhouxiang Fei (Univ. Strathclyde), Graeme M. West (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Gordon Dobie (Univ. Strathclyde)
Presented by Andrew Young (University of Strathclyde)
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PVC Detection in Sellafield Repackaging Procedures via Hyperspectral Imaging
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Jaime Zabalza (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Stephen Marshall (Univ. Strathclyde), Jinchang Ren (Robert Gordon Univ.), Robert Bernard (Sellafield), Steve Hepworth (Sellafield)
Automated X-ray Classification of Special Nuclear Materials as an Operator Aid
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Andrew Campbell (Univ. Strathclyde), Jaime Zabalza (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Stephen Marshall (Univ. Strathclyde), Neil Cockbain (National Nuclear Laboratory), Douglas Offin (National Nuclear Laboratory), Gareth Myers (Sellafield), Robert Bernard (Sellafield)
Classification of Ultrasonic B-Scan Images from Welding Defects Using a Convolutional Neural Network
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Hongbin Sun (ORNL), Richard Jacob (PNNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL)
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