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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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.
Technical Session|Modeling and Simulation
Wednesday, October 9, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 1
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Digital Engineering Implementation in the Nuclear Energy Industry
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Philip Schoonover (Battelle Energy Alliance/INL), Peter Suyderhoud (INL), Nicholas Crowder (INL)
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Automatic Machine Learning Demonstration for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Reactivity Control and Rod Ejection Simulations
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Patrick A. Myers (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Connor C. Craig (Univ. Michigan), Andrew P. Panter (Univ. Michigan)
High Fidelity Simulations of Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Sinan Okyay (Pennsylvania State University), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)
Review of Recent Activities with MOOSE, an Open-Source Finite Element and Finite Volume Multi-Fidelity Simulation Framework
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Logan H. Harbour (Texas A&M University), Lynn Munday (INL), Benjamin Spencer (Idaho Local Section), Tianchen Hu (Argonne National Laboratory), Yinbin Miao (Argonne National Laboratory), Christopher Green (CSIRO Energy), Rupert Eardley-Brunt (UKAEA)
A Proposed Verification and Validation Process for Machine Learning in Nuclear Applications
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Rajinder Khurmi (Ontario Tech University), Glenn Harvel (Ontario Tech University), Karthik Sankaranarayanan (Ontario Tech University)
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