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Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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DOE report: Cost to finish cleaning up Hanford site could exceed $589 billion
The cost to complete the cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state could cost as much as $589.4 billion, according to the 2025 Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule, and Cost Report, which was released by the DOE on April 15. While that estimate is $44.2 billion lower than the DOE’s 2022 estimate of $640.6 billion, a separate, low-end estimate has since grown by more than 21 percent, to $364 billion.
The life cycle report, which the DOE is legally required to issue every three years under agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), summarizes the remaining work scope, schedule, and cost estimates for the nuclear site. For more than 40 years, Hanford’s reactors produced plutonium for America’s defense program.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom F
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Linyu Lin
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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Discovering Multi-Dimensional Time Series Anomalies of a Circulating Water System
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Congjian Wang (Idaho National Laboratory), Diego Mandelli (Idaho National Laboratory), Chaitee M. Godbole (Idaho National Laboratory), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory), Mohammad Movassat (Ontario Power Generation), Brian Mori (Ontario Power Generation), Daniel Liang (Ontario Power Generation), Eddy Nur (Ontario Power Generation), Amir Birjandi (Ontario Power Generation), Bryan Lobo (Ontario Power Generation), Jacome Murcia (Ontario Power Generation)
Paper
Investigation of the Performance and Explainability Tradeoffs for Machine-Learning Models for Predictive Maintenance of Circulating Water Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Linyu Lin (Idaho National Laboratory), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory)
Methods for Crediting On-Line Monitoring and Diagnostic Capabilities in Extending and Eliminating Surveillances Digital Safety System Technical Specifications
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Edward L. Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions)
Secure Anomaly Detection in Advanced Reactor through Quantum Federated Learning with Advanced Cryptography
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Sai Puppala (SIU), Ismail Hossain (University of Texas at El Paso), Md J. Alam (University of Texas at El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (Young Members Group), Syed Bahauddin Alam (UIUC), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
Action-Based Prediction for Mitigation Actions in Severe Accident at Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
hyojin Kim (KAIST - 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu), Jonghyun Kim (KAIST - 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu)
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