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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Thursday, July 20, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301D
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Session Organizer:
Vaibhav Yadav
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Multi-Fidelity Machine Learning Approach to Material Modeling for Digital Twin Framework
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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Components of Intelligent Digital Twin Framework for Complex Nuclear System
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Md Nazmus Sakib (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Applications of APR1400 MMIS Virtualization Simulator for the NPP's Performance
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Sungjin Lee (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Ho Sun Ryu (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Min-seok Kim (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Yong Sik Kim (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.)
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Identification of Human Errors in Nuclear Power Plants
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Bhavya Reddy Kotla (San Jose State), Ezgi Gursel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katy Daniels (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Anahita Khojandi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Baalis Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Mahboubeh Madadi (San Jose State)
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