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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
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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
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Darren J. Skitt
Co-Chair:
Peter G. Newby
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Exploring Spark Plasma Sintering as a Promising Method for TRISO Compact Fabrication
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Anil Prasad (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Adam Cruse (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Andrew Bergeron (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Hygreeva Namburi (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), James Buckley (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Jeffrey Battersby (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Lava K. Pillari (University of British Columbia), Owen Mottershead (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Patrick Morrison (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Reeghan Osmond (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Victoria Szlachta (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Zainab Ali (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Madalena Spencer (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Catherine Thiriet (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory), Lukas Bichler (University of British Columbia)
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Advancements in TRISO Kernel Fabrication at Commercial Scale
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Griffin Gayne (Standard Nuclear), Michael Trammell (Standard Nuclear)
TRISO-Particle-in-Compact Homogenization Methodology
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Joseph Y.R. Rashid (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Deena Jaber (Structural Integrity Associates), Wenfeng Liu (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Anant Mohan (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Alipasha Sadri (Celeris Engineering)
Development of a FEM-based TRISO Fuel Performance Code for Multi-scale FCM Fuel Analysis
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Jongho Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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