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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|3:15–5:00PM EST|Anemone
Session Chair:
Chaitee M. Godbole
Alternate Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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A Machine Learning Methodology for Fault Detection for Online Monitoring of Reactor Coolant Pumps
3:15–3:35PM EST
Chaitee Milind Godbole (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Bridging the Gap Between Prognostics and Maintenance Decision-Making of Critical Assets in Nuclear Power Plants
3:35–3:55PM EST
Zihan Li (Univ. Florida), Minhee Kim (Univ. Florida)
Anomaly Detection in Temperature Measurements of Liquid Sodium Heater Zones Using an LSTM Autoencoder
3:55–4:15PM EST
Maria Pantopoulou (Purdue Univ.), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Design, Construction, and Plans for the FISHtank: A Physical Testbed for Health Monitoring and Controls Research
4:15–4:35PM EST
David Anderson (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Avery Bateman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Residual Error Time-Series Forecasting for Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Reactor Data
4:35–4:55PM EST
Zachery Dahm (Purdue Univ.), William Richards (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), Vasileos Theos (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
AI Powered Nuclear Reactor Core Instrumentation Diagnostics
4:55–5:15PM EST
M. Berardi (Blue Wave AI Labs), G.J. Mendis (Blue Wave AI Labs), M.J. Mueterthies (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Heim (Blue Wave AI Labs), J.T. Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs)
