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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue)
Alternate Chair:
Sven Bader (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Assess Geological Characteristics in the Subsurface
8:00–8:20AM MST
H.R. Gadey (PNNL), R. Howard (PNNL), S.C. Tognini (ORNL), J.L. Meszaros (ORNL), R. Montgomery (ORNL), S. Chatzidakis (Purdue), J. Bae (Purdue), R. Clark (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
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Frequency Response Function Based Damage Detection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
8:20–8:40AM MST
Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh (Univ. Southern California), Bora Gencturk (Univ. Southern California), Roger Ghanem (Univ. Southern California), Anna Arcaro (Univ. Southern California)
Fusion of Distributed Fiber Optics, Acoustic NDE for Spent Fuel Monitoring Towards Physics-Informed Machine Learning
8:40–9:00AM MST
Pengdi Zhang (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhishek Venketeswaran (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ruishu F. Wright (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ryan M. Meyer (PNNL), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Monitoring Spent Nuclear Fuel in a Dry Cask Using Momentum Integrated Muon Scattering Tomography
9:00–9:20AM MST
Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities
9:20–9:40AM MST
B. Craig (ANL), K. Byrne (ANL), Y.Y. Liu (ANL), M. Hoover (Embedded Planet)
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