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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Nuclear new build procurement considerations
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
July 15–20, 2023
Knoxville, TN
You are invited to submit your work for special issues of the ANS journals Nuclear Science and Engineering and Nuclear Technology or to the ANS publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research. Click the + for more information.
The NPIC&HMIT 2023 and PSA 2023 conferences have partnered with ANS journals Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and Nuclear Technology (NT) to publish special issues of papers derived from the conferences. Additionally, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the special collections on the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). See below or click here for more information on NSTOR.
If interested, please contact the guest editors listed below or submit directly via the links below.
**Submission window: open now with a final deadline of March 31, 2024
Details:
Submittal instructions:
Please consider the scopes of the journals when deciding where to submit.
Nuclear Science and Engineering welcomes submissions that explore basic and fundamental research in all areas related to nuclear science and engineering. Submit to Nuclear Science & Engineering – Questions? Email nse@ans.org.
Nuclear Technology welcomes submissions that explore all phases of applications of fundamental research to nuclear technology. Submit to Nuclear Technology – Questions? Email nt@ans.org.
Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations). Submit to NSTOR NPIC&HMIT 2023 | PSA 2023 – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending NPIC&HMIT 2023 and PSA 2023, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Vivek Agarwal, guest editor, NPIC&HMIT 2023 Program Chairvivek.agarwal@inl.gov
Jamie Coble, guest editor, NPIC&HMIT 2023 General Chair jamie@utk.edu
Mihai Diaconeasa, guest editor, PSA 2023 Publications Chair madiacon@ncsu.edu
Askin Yigitoglu, guest editor, PSA 2023 Program Chair yigitoglua@ornl.gov
Michael Muhlheim, guest editor, PSA 2023 General Chair muhlheimmd@ornl.gov
Farzad Rahnema, Nuclear Science and Engineering editor-in-chief frahnema@outlook.com
Yassin Hassan, Nuclear Technology editor-in-chief y-hassan@tamu.edu
Thank you for participating in the 13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)!
The Proceedings of NPIC&HMIT 2023 are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the Proceedings is linked to the account you used to register for the meeting.
You can also access the Proceedings by logging in to the ANS website and then:
NPIC&HMIT is the de facto forum for nuclear instrumentation and control (I&C) and human factors engineering (HFE) professionals to meet with leaders in industry and academia, discover the state of the technology, exchange information, and discuss future directions. In addition to an impressive list of government and industry leaders, we are also planning several outstanding hot-topic technical sessions and popular plenary speakers, which will attract professionals from across the nation and internationally.
Joseph A. Naser II Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Retired
Richard T. Wood, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Nuclear EngineeringThe University of Tennessee
Check out these sessions at the colocated PSA 2023 Conference that NPIC&HMIT sponsored.