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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Anemone
Session Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Brendan M. Kochunas
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Autonomous Operations for Advanced Reactors Utilizing Supervisory Control
1:00–1:20PM EST
Lauren Fortier (MIT), Sacit Cetiner (MIT)
Paper
Robustness of Deep-Reinforcement-Learning Control for Fast Load-Following-Operation of S-CO2 Microreactor
1:20–1:40PM EST
Jeong Yeol Baek (KAIST), Taeyeon Min (KAIST), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST)
Evaluation of Reactor State Identification with Machine and Deep Learning Using Real Data
1:40–2:00PM EST
Julian Mauricio Cruz Rojas (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), Zachery Thomas Dahm (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Microreactor Simulation Performance Analysis for Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed
2:00–2:20PM EST
Jono McConnell (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL)
Proof-of-Concept for Sensor Modeling in MOOSE for the Design of Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Control
2:20–2:40PM EST
Farhana Farha (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Sebastian Schunert (Radiant Nuclear), Stefano Terlizzi (INL)
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