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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 2
Session Chair:
Vaibhav Yadav
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
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How Digital Twins may be used in Design and Operations
1:00–1:20PM MST
M.D. Muhlheim (ORNL), P. Ramuhalli (ORNL), A. Huning (ORNL), A. Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), A. Saxena (GE Research), R.T. Wood (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Regulatory Requirements, Guidance, and Review of Digital Twins
1:20–1:40PM MST
Laboratory Demonstration of Structural Digital Twin Use Cases for Nuclear Construction
1:40–2:00PM MST
Lauren J. Thomas (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Timothy P. Kernicky (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Youngjin Park (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Matthew J. Whelan (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Hasan Charkas (EPRI)
Digital Twins for Monitoring Construction Quality
2:00–2:20PM MST
Robert W. Cox (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Timothy Kernicky (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Milind Khire (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Matthew Whelan (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Youngjin Park (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte), Hasan Charkas (EPRI), Amit Varma (Purdue), Juswald Vedovi (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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