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October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301C
Session Chair:
Ahmad Al Rashdan
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Anomaly Detection Using Graph Neural Network in Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Ji Woo Hong (Chosun Univ.), Man Gyun Na (Chosun Univ.)
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Scalability of Condition-Based Maintenance Using Federated Learning
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Vivek Agarwal (INL), Koushik A. Manjunatha (INL), Harry Palas (Public Service Enterprise Group)
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Within-Bank Condition Monitoring and Fault Detection of Fine Motion Control Rod Drives
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Ark Ifeanyi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Abhinav Saxena (GE-Research), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Impact of AI/ML on Nuclear Regulation: Tactics and Strategy
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Robin Bloomfield (Adelard), Timothy Burd (Adelard), Gareth Fletcher (Adelard), Luke Hinde (Adelard)
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