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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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)
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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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