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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M Uni)
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State Estimation and Control in Digital Twins for TRIGA Research Reactors
10:15–10:35AM PDT
John Ross (Univ. Texas, Austin), Ben Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Demonstration of Microreactor Reactivity Control with Reinforcement Learning
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Kamal Abdulraheem (Univ. Michigan), Moutaz Elias (Lam Research)
Machine Learning Prediction of Pebble History in Pebble Bed Reactors
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Ian Kolaja (Univ. California, Berkeley), Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jaewon Lee (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
C3-LPO: A Machine Learning Based Surrogate Model for Reactor Design Evaluation and Optimization
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Kingsley Ogujiuba (NCSU), Jake Mikouchi-Lopez (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
Generative AI Tools in the Nuclear Engineering Community: A Survey-Based Evaluation of the Current Adoption and Impacts
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Oskari Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
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