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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
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.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Saturday, April 6, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Engineering Services Building Room 122
Session Chair:
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Alexander S. Hauck (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Machine Learning for Time-Series Prediction of the Cryogenic Moderator System in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source Facility
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Gavin McDuffee (Tennessee Technological Univ.), William Gurecky (Univ. Texas, Austin), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL), Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
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ML-LIBS: Machine Learning-Based Spectra Predictions of Time-Dependent Lithium Emission Spectroscopy Imaging
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Nursat Karim (NCSU), Sivanandan S. Harilal (PNNL), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Parameter Importances from Random Forest Machine Learning for Accident Tolerant Fuel Pool Boiling
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Eliot R. Ciuperca (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Bruno P. Serrao (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
A Preliminary Exploration into Using Mixture Density Networks to Compress Data in Monte Carlo Codes
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Eappen S. Nelluvelil (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), Anna Matsekh (LANL), Arvind Mohan (LANL), Mathew A. Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL)
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