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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NEA report calls for more accurate data on SNF heat decay
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has issued a report calling for more-detailed information on tracking the decay heat of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors. According to the NEA, the report highlights the increasing importance of accurate decay heat estimations due to evolving fuel characteristics, including higher initial fuel enrichment, increased burn-up rates, and extended reactor cycle lengths.
The report, Summary of the NEA Assessment on Spent Nuclear Fuel Decay Heat for Light Water Reactors, summarizes the findings of a subgroup of the NEA’s Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS), which ran from January 2022 to January 2024.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Developing an AI-Powered Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Framework for Malware Prevention in Nuclear Power Plants
10:00–10:20AM EST
Sajedul Talukkder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Palash Kumar Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Towards a Cyber-Physical Testbed for Cybersecurity Research in Nuclear Environments
10:20–10:40AM EST
Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), True Miller (Purdue), Brian Jowers (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Simulating Quantum Key Distribution for Nuclear Reactor Communications with NuQKD
10:40–11:00AM EST
Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Philip G. Evans (ORNL), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Adversarial AI Threats on Digitization of Nuclear Power Plants
11:00–11:20AM EST
Kishor Datta Gupta (Clark Atlanta Univ.), Sajedul Talukder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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