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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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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Report spotlights energy sector’s growing nuclear investment
As part of a broader series on the future of global energy markets, S&P Global has released a report on examining the growing interest in nuclear power as the solution to many of the problems the energy sector faces.
To read the full details and conclusions of the report, click here.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session|Panel
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Raymond L. Herb
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pareez Golub
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (ANS)
What will the control room of the future look like? How are MCR modernization design decisions made? How are the design process and objectives different for small modular reactors vs. existing power plants that are modernizing to support subsequent license renewal and extended operation into 80 years? Come hear several leaders discuss the Human Factors decisions and considerations that were key to their main control room design and modernization efforts. Hear about advances in Human Factors engineering and how the programs are changing to support modern human machine interfaces associated with digital controls. Hear about the challenges with integrating new controls in an existing plant, modern alarm management, and the challenges of training a new generation of operators in a hybrid control room.
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