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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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
Thursday, July 20, 2023|8:00–9:30AM EDT|301E
Session Chair:
Padhraic L. Mulligan
Alternate Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Session Organizer:
Daniel G. Cole
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High Flux Isotope Reactor Irradiation of Self-Powered Neutron Detectors
8:00–8:25AM EDT
Padhraic L. Mulligan (ORNL), Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), Kara M. Godsey (ORNL), N. Dianne B. Ezell (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
Paper
Methods for Continuously Resolving Spectral Shifts in Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors Irradiated to Extreme Neutron Fluence
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
Demonstration of a Model-Based Approach for Formal Verification of I&C Logics
8:50–9:15AM EDT
Joonas Linnosmaa (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Antti Pakonen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Jarmo Alanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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