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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
Standards Program
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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 2
Session Chair:
Takanori Kajihara (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Kurshad Muftuoglu (EPRI)
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Economic Evaluation of Electricity Supply and Storage in Energy Poor Region Using Microreactor and Two-Step Water Splitting Method
9:00–9:20AM EDT
SeockYong Lee (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Su Won Lee (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), UngJin Na (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), HangJin Jo (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology)
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Integrated Energy System Model in OpenModelica for Producing Energy, Powering a Desalination Plant and for District Heating
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Md Akhlak Bin Aziz (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CT Callaway (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Data Projection of the High Temperature Electrolysis System in the Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory Using Dynamic System Scaling
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Ramon Yoshiura (INL), Jiangkai Peng (INL), Aaron Epiney (INL)
Presented by Zachary Ketrow (Oregon State)
Partial Arc Admission in an SMR Steam Turbine to Improve Load Following: Model Benchmark, Thermal-Hydraulic Mechanism Analysis and Application Case in a Full Rankine Cycle
10:00–10:20AM EDT
G. Vescovi (CEA), N. Alpy (CEA), D. Haubensack (CEA), C. Azzaro-Pantel (Univ. Toulouse), P. Stouffs (Univ. Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), A. Charvet (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon)
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