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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Semi-Automated Knowledge Capture and Representation for the Development of Knowledge Based Systems
A. Young (Univ. of Strathclyde), G. West (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Brown (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Stephen (Univ. of Strathclyde), A. Duncan (The Alan Turing Institute), C. Michie (Univ. of Strathclyde), S. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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Trusting Machine Learning in Nuclear Plant Control: A Reasoning-Based Discrepancy Checker
Botros N. Hanna (New Mexico State Univ.), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State Univ.), Paridhi Athe (North Carolina State Univ.), Tran C. Son (New Mexico State Univ.), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State Univ.)
Introduction of Analytics, Decision-Support, and Advanced Procedure Tool (ADAPT) and the Cultural Implications it Poses to the Nuclear Industry
R. Hill (INL), C. Kovesdi (INL), Z. Spielman (INL), J. Mohon (INL), T. Miyake (INL), K. Le Blanc (INL)
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