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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine H
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Exploring Quantitative and Qualitative Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Neutron Flux Values from a Simulated Molten Salt Reactor
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Konstantinos Vasili (Purdue Univ.), Seda Yilmaz (Purdue Univ.), Matthew M. Niichel (Purdue Univ.), Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Shripad Revankar (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Paper
Preliminary Analysis of Passive Safety System Operation Through Temperature-Data-Based Machine Learning Modeling
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Hyoung Suk Yu (KAIST), Yong Hoon Jeong (KAIST)
Classification Modeling of Nuclear Power Plant Outage Severities
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Michael Castillo (Oregon State), Andrew Klein (Oregon State)
Integrating LLMs for Explainable Fault Diagnosis in Complex Systems
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Condition-Based Calibration of Pressure Transmitters Implemented at Vogtle Nuclear Station
2:20–2:30PM PDT
H.M. Hashemian (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), G.W. Morton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), B.D. Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
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