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Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
. . . and today.
Weitzberg then. . .
My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey and our class visited a Monsanto sulfuric acid factory in Boston Harbor. I lost my enthusiasm for chemical engineering and decided to take a couple of introductory nuclear engineering courses as a senior. After a summer job at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, I started on a nuclear engineering master’s degree program. (An Atomic Energy Commission fellowship certainly helped my decision.)
The following summer, I performed reactor physics experiments at Brookhaven with Herb Kouts, Joe Hendrie, Rudy Sher, and Henry Windsor. In January 1962, after defending my Ph.D. dissertation on measuring uranium-238 capture in lattices of uranium rods in heavy water, I headed to Los Angeles to work on SNAP reactors for Atomics International. There, I performed critical experiments and managed their aerospace safety program.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Anemone
Session Chair:
Konstantinos Prantikos
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Using Generative Pretrained Transformer to Perform System Theoretic Process Analysis for Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
10:00–10:20AM EST
Paridhi Athe (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Tate H. Shorthill (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
Paper
Retrieval Augmented Generation for Liquid Sodium Facility Documentation Processing
10:20–10:40AM EST
Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue Univ.), Venetis Pallikaras (Georgia Tech), Maria Pantopoulou (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Nuclear TRIZ GPT: Integrating Large Language Model and TRIZ Methodologies for Nuclear Technology Innovation
10:40–11:00AM EST
Hyeon Ji Kim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulic System
11:00–11:20AM EST
Leveraging Large Language Models for Optimizing 10 CFR 50.59 Screening
11:20–11:40AM EST
A. Bakshi (Blue Wave AI Labs), M. Brasel (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), S. Banerjee (Blue Wave AI Labs), P. McCalley (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs)
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