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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session|Panel
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301C
Session Chair:
Ahmad Al Rashdan
Alternate Chair:
Richard B. Vilim
Session Organizer:
Pattrick Calderoni
Advanced nuclear reactors offer a new set of features to energy generation, due to their ability to adapt to variable energy demand, operate autonomously, be deployed in rural locations and monitored remotely, afford compact size and lower power ratings, and rely on novel technologies to achieve safer operations. The highly autonomous and dynamic nature of advanced nuclear reactors, as well as their potential abilities to operate remotely, necessitates more powerful forms of control, including the use of intelligent and adaptable control to track changing power demands, make autonomous decisions, and reduce or optimize the need for human involvement. This panel aims to discuss how the advanced nuclear reactor community are developing advanced control methods to meet their unique requirements.
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