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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Lisa Marshall discusses the future of nuclear education
ANS President Lisa Marshall recently sat down with Phil Zeringue, vice president of strategic partnerships at Nuclearn.ai to talk about the evolving state of education in the nuclear world.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301B
Session Chair:
Linyu Lin
Alternate Chair:
Junyung Kim
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Linyu Lin
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joseph Oncken
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Tim Nguyen
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Kyle Warns
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Adaptive Data-Driven Model Predictive Control for Heat Pipe Microreactors
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Linyu Lin (INL), Benjamin Zastrow (Univ. Texas, Austin), Joseph Oncken (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Paper
Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactors Under Normal and Heat Pipe Failure Conditions
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Joseph Oncken (INL), Linyu Lin (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Design and Prototyping of Diagnostic Methods to Support Autonomous Operations of Advanced Reactors
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
An Interpretation of the Bellman Equation for Risk-Informed Decision Making
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Kyle Warns (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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