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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Modeling and Simulation
Wednesday, October 9, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 1
Session Chair:
Ahmad Y. Al Rashdan (INL)
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Digital Engineering Implementation in the Nuclear Energy Industry
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Philip Schoonover (INL), Peter Suyderhoud (INL), Nicholas Crowder (INL)
Paper
Automatic Machine Learning Demonstration for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Reactivity Control and Rod Ejection Simulations
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Patrick A. Myers (Univ. Michigan), Connor C. Craig (Univ. Michigan), Andrew P. Panter (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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High-Fidelity Simulations of an Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Sinan Okyay (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Review of Recent Activities with MOOSE, an Open-Source Finite Element and Finite Volume Multi-Fidelity Simulation Framework
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan Harbour (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL), Lynn B. Munday (INL), Benjamin W. Spencer (INL), Tianchen Hu (ANL), Peter German (INL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Christopher Green (CSIRO Energy), Rupert Eardley-Brunt (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Sarah E. Roberts (INL)
A Proposed Verification and Validation Method for Machine Learning in Nuclear Applications
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Rajinder Khurmi (Ontario Tech Univ.), Glenn Harvel (Ontario Tech Univ.), Karthik Sankaranarayanan (Ontario Tech Univ.)
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