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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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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Kane
Session Chair:
Sajedul Talukder
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Vision-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnostic in Nuclear Power Plants Using Large Language Models
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Jean C. Tonday Rodriguez (Florida International University), Dipan Sadekeen (Florida International University), Mohammed A. Rahman (Florida International University), Syed B. Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Enhancing Learning for Nuclear Reactor Operator Trainees with Large Language Models
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jason P. Clifford (North Carolina State University), Julianna M. White (North Carolina State University), Alexander Heifetz (Argonne National Laboratory), Ayman I. Hawari (North Carolina State University), Xu Wu (North Carolina State University)
LLM-Powered Chatbot for Safety Compliance Assistance in Nuclear Power Plants
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Ismail Hossain (UTEP), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Md J. Alam (University of Texas at El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (Young Members Group), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (UTEP)
Automated Generation of System Code Inputs from P&IDs Using Vision-Language Models
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Akshay Dave (Argonne National Laboratory), Tim Nguyen (Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel O'Grady (Argonne National Laboratory), Rui Hu (Argonne National Laboratory), Richard B. Vilim (Argonne National Laboratory)
Evaluating Economic Impact: An Investment Tool for Large Language Model Integration in Workweek Management
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Chaitee M. Godbole (Idaho National Laboratory), John Johnson (University of Minnesota), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory)
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