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2025 ANS Annual Conference
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Director / Principal Researcher, Advanced Instrumentation and Control Research Division
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
Dr. Seo Ryong Koo is the Director of the Advanced Instrumentation and Control Research Division at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). He received his Ph.D. in Department of Nuclear Engineering from KAIST in 2005, specializing in the integrated environment for the development, verification and validation of safety-critical software.
Prior to joining KAERI in 2016, Dr. Koo served as a Team Leader in the Nuclear I&C Department at Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction. During his tenure, he led the localization of the nuclear Man-Machine Interface System (MMIS) and was responsible for the testing and verification of the instrumentation and control systems for Shin Hanul Units 1 and 2 - the first Korean nuclear power plants equipped with fully localized MMIS technology.
At KAERI, Dr. Koo plays a leading role in the development of intelligent nuclear instrumentation and control systems, nuclear autonomous operation and automation system design, as well as software verification and validation for nuclear MMIS. His contributions have been instrumental in advancing the reliability and automation of nuclear power plant control systems.
In 2020, Dr. Koo was honored with the Minister's Award for Excellence in AI Industry Development by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea. He also served as a member of the Organizing Committee for ISOFIC 2024, an international conference dedicated to nuclear instrumentation and control technology.
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