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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ORNL, INL make deals on AI for nuclear licensing
The United States has tight new deadlines—18 months, max—for licensing commercial reactor designs. The Department of Energy is marshaling the nuclear expertise and high-performance computing assets of its national laboratories, in partnership with private tech companies, to develop generative AI tools and large-scale simulations that could help get nuclear reactor designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process—or the DOE’s own reactor pilot program. “Accelerate” and “streamline” are the verbs of choice in recent announcements from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, as they describe plans with Atomic Canyon, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 8
Session Chair:
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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Predicting BWR Criticality with Data-Driven Machine Learning Model
1:00–1:20PM MST
Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Anirudh Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), Jonathan Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), James Tusar (Constellation), J. Thomas Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
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Multiphysics-Coupled Seismic Safety Analysis of Molten-Salt Reactors
1:20–1:40PM MST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Somayajulu L. N. Dhulipala (INL), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Preliminary Assessment for Improved Features of KARMA Lattice Transport Code Through PWR Core Follow Calculations
1:40–2:00PM MST
Hyunsik Hong (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel), Changhyun Lim (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel), Joo Il Yoon (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel)
Enforcing Neutron Balance Through Current Correction with Optimization
2:00–2:20PM MST
Oscar Lastres (Purdue), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
Monte Carlo Modeling Unification via a Metamodel-Driven Approach
2:20–2:40PM MST
Peter J. Kowal (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Camden E. Blake (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Joseph A. McPherson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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