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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Comparison of Exponential Smoothing and GRU-Based Monitoring of Liquid Sodium Heater Zones
10:00–10:20AM EST
Maria Pantopoulou (Purdue), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Paper
Structural Deformation in Fluid-Structure Interaction for Nuclear Systems
10:20–10:40AM EST
Dinesh Kumar (Univ. Bristol), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Operation Optimization Framework for Advanced Reactors Using a Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Digital Twin
10:40–11:00AM EST
Andy Rivas (NCSU), G.K. Delipei (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU)
Estimation of Remaining Useful Life of Nuclear Power Plant Assets for Digital Twin Framework Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network
11:00–11:20AM EST
Md Nazmus Sakib (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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