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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
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)
