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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
From kindergarten classrooms to national security facilities, each event I attended during the opening weeks of the new year underscored one truth: The future of nuclear energy depends on the people we inspire, educate, and empower today.
I had a busy start to 2026, first speaking at the Nashville Energy and Mining Summit alongside Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association senior vice president Justin Maierhofer to explore the necessary synergies among policy, academic coursework, research, and industry expertise in accelerating American nuclear innovation. Drawing on experiences in high-level government relations and public affairs and decades of work in nuclear instrumentation advancements, we discussed Tennessee’s nuclear renaissance, workforce development, and policy frameworks that support emerging energy demands.
Technical Session|Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Chris Brady (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Whewell (LANL)
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Development of Variational Neural Networks for Uncertainty Quantification of Nuclear Applications
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Logan A. Burnett (Univ. Michigan), Umme Mahbuba Nabila (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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Towards Explainable AI in Nuclear: Introducing Ad Hoc Model Explainability
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Alex Xu (Univ. Michigan), Nataly Panczyk (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
Interpretable Machine Learning Regression for Nuclear Applications with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN)
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Omer Erdem (Univ. Michigan), Nataly Panczyk (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
High-Resolution Predictions of the Fuel and Cladding Temperatures for the 3D PWR Core with Artificial Neural Networks Trained on CTF
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Marianna Papadionysiou (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Hakim Ferroukhi (Paul Scherrer Institute), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
Presented by Chris Brady (NCSU)
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