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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|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Dennis Hussey
Co-Chair:
Matthieu Aumand
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Understanding the Thermomechanical Response of Ferritic and Ferritic-Martensitic Steel Claddings to Accident Transients
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Samuel B. Bell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Mackenzie Ridley (ORNL), Nathan Capps (ORNL), Amy Godfrey (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL)
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Importance of Early Radiation Assessment Consideration on UO2 Fuel Performance During Accelerated Conditions
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Mutaz Alshannaq (The ohio state University), Md Minaruzzaman (The ohio state University), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.), Adam X. Zabriskie (INL), Marat Khafizov (The Ohio State University)
Development of a Reduced Order Model for the Thermal Assessment of Fuel Assembly Dry Lift for Refueling a Liquid Metal Fast Reactor
10:50–11:15AM CDT
Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Mike Epstein (Fauske & Associates LLC), Sung J. Lee (Fauske & Associates LLC), Cory Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Alireza Mofidi (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
Fuel Pin Irradiation Tests in the High Flux Reactor: Past Experiments and New Experiment Design for Screening of Innovative Gen IV Fuel Candidates
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Sander Van Til (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), Ronald Beck (NRG PALLAS), Tim v. Lunteren (NRG PALLAS)
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