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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
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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