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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Optimizing nuclear plant outages: Data analytics tools and methods for enhancing resilience and efficiency
Nuclear power plant refueling outages are among the most complex phases in a plant’s operational cycle.1 During these outages, tens of thousands of activities, including maintenance and surveillance, are conducted simultaneously within a short timeframe. Typically lasting three to four weeks, these operations involve large crews of contractors with diverse skill sets performing tasks ranging from testing and surveillance to maintenance. Outages may extend longer if major backfitting or modernization projects are planned. Consequently, plant outages are expensive, incurring significant operational costs, such as contractor labor and equipment, as well as the loss of generation while the plant is off line. This can easily cost a plant operator more than $1 million a day. Therefore, there is a constant need to mitigate the economic impact on plants by reducing the frequency, duration, and risks associated with these outages.2,3
Technical Session|FCWMD
Wednesday, October 8, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Cumberland South
Session Chair:
Aylin Kucuk
Co-Chair:
Shun Hirooka
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Fuel Pellet Design for High Burnup
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Swaminathan Vaidyanathan (ANFMSJ)
Presented by Brenden Mervin (EPRI)
Paper
Analysis of the Behavior of ATF Microcell UO2 Fuel under Irradiation
3:40–4:05PM CDT
V. D'Ambrosi (CEA), R. Masson (CEA), J. Fauque (CEA), J. Lechelle (CEA), L. Portelette (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA)
Manufacturing and Characterization of UO2-Gd2O3 Pellet with High Gd Contents
4:05–4:30PM CDT
Jae Ho Yang (KAERI), Ji-Hwan Lee (KAERI), Dong-Seok Kim (KAERI), Dong-Joo Kim (KAERI), Ji-Hae Yoon (KAERI), Yeon-Soo Na (Korea Nuclear Fuel Co.)
Post-Irradiation Examination of a Wrought FeCrAl Alloy C26M Following Commercial Reactor Irradiation
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Caleb Massey (ORNL), Ben Garrison (ORNL), Jesse Werden (ORNL), Casey McKinney (ORNL), Dan Lutz (Global Nuclear Fuel), Russ Fawcett (Global Nuclear Fuel), Rajnikant Umretiya (GE Research Center), Hamdy Abouelella (GE Vernova), Randall Dunavant (Southern Company), Yukinori Yamamoto (ORNL), Geeta Kumari (ORNL), Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan), Jason Harp (ORNL)
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