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Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
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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