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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Pointview
Session Chair:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
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Alternate Chair:
Benjamin S. Collins (U. of Texas)
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PWR Loading Pattern Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Paul Seurin (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Parallel Simulated Annealing with Embedded Machine Learning and Multifidelity Models for Reactor Core Design
William Gurecky (ORNL), Ben Collins (ORNL), Paul Laiu (ORNL), Tara Pandya (ORNL), Quincy Huhn (TAMU), Dave Kropaczek (ORNL)
Group Structure Selection with Random Forests
Vishnu Nair (LANL), Thomas Saller (LANL), Andrew Till (LANL), Nathan Gibson (LANL)
Extension of the PINN Diffusion Model to k-eigenvalue Problems
Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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