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October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)|Cosponsored by NPIC&HMIT
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Sai Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Natural Language Processing-Enhanced Nuclear Industry Operating Experience Data Analysis: Aggregation and Interpretation of Multi-Report Analysis Results
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Min Xian (Univ. Idaho)
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The Development of an Outlier Detection Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Nuclear Power Plant Cables
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Gabriel Lentchner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), John Leland (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Elijah Connatser (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Casey Sexton (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Brent Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Verification and Validation Approach for Use of Data Analytics in Nuclear Power Plants
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Ethan Wise (Jensen Hughes), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Andrew Miller (Jensen Hughes)
Creating Annotated Corpus and Named Entity Recognition Model for Nuclear Power Industry
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Hideki Sekiguchi (NCSU), Joomyung Lee (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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