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The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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DTE Energy, the owner of Fermi nuclear power plant in Michigan, is considering an extended uprate for Unit 2 that would increase its 1,100-MW generation capacity by 150 MW.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301C
Session Chair:
Ahmad Al Rashdan
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Anomaly Detection Using Graph Neural Network in Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Ji Woo Hong (Chosun Univ.), Man Gyun Na (Chosun Univ.)
Paper
Scalability of Condition-Based Maintenance Using Federated Learning
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Vivek Agarwal (INL), Koushik A. Manjunatha (INL), Harry Palas (Public Service Enterprise Group)
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Within-Bank Condition Monitoring and Fault Detection of Fine Motion Control Rod Drives
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Ark Ifeanyi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Abhinav Saxena (GE-Research), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Impact of AI/ML on Nuclear Regulation: Tactics and Strategy
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Robin Bloomfield (Adelard), Timothy Burd (Adelard), Gareth Fletcher (Adelard), Luke Hinde (Adelard)
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