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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Risk-informed, performance-based design in INL’s MARVEL reactor
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speaker: Doug Gerstner, a nuclear safety engineer at Idaho National Laboratory, who presented “Application of a Qualitative RIPB Approach for the MARVEL Microreactor at INL.”
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Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 10, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Foundation Models for Dynamic Nuclear Systems: Energy-Efficient Surrogates via Deep Operator Learning
1:00–1:20PM EST
Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois)
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A RAG-Model Enhanced Human-AI Collaboration for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Research
1:20–1:40PM EST
Karen DSouza (Idaho National Laboratory), Phyllis King (Idaho National Laboratory), Colby Jenson (Idaho national laboratory), Daniel M. Wachs (Idaho National Laboratory), Tiankai Yao (Idaho National Laboratory)
Machine Learning for Time-Series Forecasting with Quantile Regression and Anomaly Detection
1:40–2:00PM EST
Lauren S. Bailey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Reagan Barr (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), James Carnal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Aaron Clark (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Braden Copley (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jake Petersen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Developing a Natural Language Assistant for Operations and Maintenance in Nuclear Systems
2:00–2:20PM EST
Jason P. Clifford (Argonne National Laboratory), Derek W. Kultgen (Argonne National Laboratory), Alexander Heifetz (Argonne National Laboratory)
Comparing Large Language Models against Humans in a Practical Search Application
2:20–2:40PM EST
Alexander McLeod (Zachry Nuclear Engineering)
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