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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|301E
Session Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Alternate Chair:
Alexander H. Hashemian
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Coolant Pump Predictive Data Analytics from Signatures Generated by the Recursive Short Time Fast Fourier Transform
3:15–3:40PM EDT
James A. Smith (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Development of a Heat Pipe Based Testbed for Online Monitoring of Microreactors
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Shawn Tyler (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Jacob Houser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Alexander Hashemian (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Presented by Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
The ARENA Test Bed -- A Versatile Resource for I&C Development and Validation
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Samuel W. Glass III (PNNL), Mychal P. Spencer (PNNL), Matthew S. Prowant (PNNL), Aishwarya Sriraman (PNNL), Jiyoung Son (PNNL), Leonard S. Fifield (PNNL)
Small Modular Reactor Condensate and Feedwater System Maintenance Methods by Utilizing Event Modeling Risk Assessment Using Linked Diagram
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Saeed Alhadhrami (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Steven Prescott (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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