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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NECX debut: Shaping the next era of energy
The sold-out inaugural Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) got off to a roaring start in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning with an opening plenary that was a live highlight reel discussing the latest industry achievements.
Starting with a lively promo video that left the audience amped up for Entergy’s CEO and NEI chair Drew Marsh, who welcomed everyone to the event, hosted jointly by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. He spoke to a full house of more than 1,300 attendees, promising a blend of science, technology, policy, and advocacy centered around the future of nuclear energy.
Ryan J. Hoover, Kenji Shimada
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 11 | November 2024 | Pages 2204-2214
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2312022
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Transient mitigation for nuclear power plants is essential for safe operation. The fourth industrial revolution brings with it the potential for data-based predictive maintenance and identifying remaining time of life for degrading components. An improvement to predictive maintenance would be to address continued operation with faulty components between the time of identification and eventual replacement. The ability to perform data analysis and contemporary digital control systems allows for data-driven control system actions. A methodology is developed herein to train a neural network that can map desired system performance and current plant component capability to control system settings. Simulations of plant transients were recorded and used to train a neural network. This neural network was tested with different target performance goals. The results show that the trained neural network recommended settings that affected the control system response so as to meet the target performance goals.