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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Aaron S. Epiney
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew J. Clark
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Probabilistic Risk Assessment Collaboration through the Japan-U.S. Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group
Curtis L. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Masato Nakajima (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Naoto Kihara (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Steven Prescott (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Transition to Extreme Decision Making - Similarities between the Response to the Corona Virus and Severe Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants.
George L. Vayssier (NSC Netherlands)
Performance Analysis of Ensemble Learning in Bearing Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machines
Xianping Zhong (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (University of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (University of Pittsburgh)
Common-Cause Component Group Modeling Issues in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Zhegang Ma (INL), Robert Buell (INL), James Knudsen (INL), Sai Zhang (INL)
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