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NRC Hanson's renomination clears Senate committee
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The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 18–1 yesterday to advance the renomination of Christopher T. Hanson as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Hanson has been a commissioner since 2020, and was named chair by President Biden in January 2021. The full U.S. Senate will consider Hanson’s nomination later this month.
Voices of support: “Chair Hanson is a dedicated public [servant] who has thoughtfully and . . . skillfully led the [NRC] during his tenure as its chair. Throughout his time on the[NRC], he has demonstrated his commitment to ensuring the safety and the security of our nation’s use of nuclear energy,” said EPW committee chair Tom Carper (D., Del.) before the vote.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Efficient Compression of Reactor Vessel Monitoring Sensor Data Using Machine Learning
1:00–1:20PM EST
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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Partial Nuclear Fuel Melt Predictions Using LSTM as Surrogate Model
1:20–1:40PM EST
James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Predicting Plenum Pressure Using Operational Parameters in Nuclear Fuels
1:40–2:00PM EST
Multivariate Time Series Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Reactors
2:00–2:20PM EST
Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue), Zachery Thomas Dahm (Purdue), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), Vasileios Theos (Purdue), William Richards (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
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