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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Technical Session|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
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Fully Coupled Adjoint-Based Perturbation Theory for dynAmIcs and heat traNsfer (CAPTAIN) Multiphysics for Nuclear Transients
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Alexis Maldonado (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
Paper
Uncertainty Quantification of Bifurcations in the Rayleigh-Benard Problem for Molten Salts
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Fadel M. Nasr (NCSU), Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Uncertainty Quantification of Transients with Derived Kinetic Data
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Maximiliano Velasco (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
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