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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Richard T. Wood
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Reducing reactor trips by improvement of Digital Core Protection System
Thiago Nascimento (KEPCO International Nuclear Graduation School), JaeCheon J. Jung (KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School)
Paper
Implementation of a Real-Time Automatic Test for Bistable and Coincidence Logics Based on FPGA
SOO YUN HWANG (KEPCO E&C), Yoon H. Lee (I&C System Engineering Department, NSSS Division, KEPCO E&C, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34057, Republic of Korea), Hyun Jeong Kim (KEPCO E&C / I&C Engineering), Ki H. Jung (KEPCO E&C)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Presentation Video - Soo Yun Hwang
Electric Noise Shielding for Inductively-Coupled Sensor Coils in Molten Sodium
Raza Sheikh (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Danielle Kline (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Jerry Potts (University of Pittsburgh), Paul Cox (University of Pittsburgh), Sacit M. Cetiner (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Heng Ban (University of Pittsburgh)
Quantitative Testing of Distributed Antenna Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
Brent D. Shumaker (AMS Corporation), Phil Zarb (AMS), Morgan Berg (AMS Corporation), Chad J. Kiger (AMS Corporation)
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