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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DNFSB spots possible bottleneck in Hanford’s waste vitrification
Workers change out spent 27,000-pound TSCR filter columns and place them on a nearby storage pad during a planned outage in 2023. (Photo: DOE)
While the Department of Energy recently celebrated the beginning of hot commissioning of the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), which has begun immobilizing the site’s radioactive tank waste in glass through vitrification, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has reported a possible bottleneck in waste processing. According to the DNFSB, unless current systems run efficiently, the issue could result in the interruption of operations at the WTP’s Low-Activity Waste Facility, where waste vitrification takes place.
During operations, the LAW Facility will process an average of 5,300 gallons of tank waste per day, according to Bechtel, the contractor leading design, construction, and commissioning of the WTP. That waste is piped to the facility after being treated by Hanford’s Tanks Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system, which filters undissolved solid material and removes cesium from liquid waste.
According to a November 7 activity report by the DNFSB, the TSCR system may not be able to produce waste feed fast enough to keep up with the LAW Facility’s vitrification rate.
Technical Session|Lightning Talks
Tuesday, October 8, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 5
Session Chair:
Dawn M. Scates (INL)
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Considerations for Introducing Artificial Intelligence into Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:07PM MDT
Anna Hall (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Presented by Cody Walker (INL)
Paper
AI/ML Lock and Key: A Methodology to Verify Unaltered AI/ML Algorithms
1:07–1:14PM MDT
Shaw X. Wen (INL)
A Method for Software Failure Mode Quantification Under Limited Data Conditions
1:14–1:21PM MDT
Tate Shorthill (INL), Han Bao (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Heng Ban (Univ. Pittsburgh)
A Review of Mobile Robot Technology for Security Applications at Nuclear Facilities
1:21–1:28PM MDT
Ujwal Sharma (Idaho State), Uma Shankar Medasetti (Idaho State), Taher Deemyad (Idaho State), Mustafa Mashal (Idaho State), Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
Presented by Robby Christian (INL)
Autonomous 3D Radiation Mapping on Robots for Efficient Monitoring of Next Generation Reactors
1:28–1:35PM MDT
Andy Haefner (Gamma Reality), Erika Suzuki (Gamma Reality), R. Pavlovsky (Gamma Reality), P. Proctor (Gamma Reality), L. Peterson (Gamma Reality), S. DuBridge (Gamma Reality), J. Oshiro (Gamma Reality)
Exploring the Efficacy of LLMs in Decision-Making for a Specific Use Case in Nuclear Power Plants
1:35–1:42PM MDT
Norman John Mapes Jr. (INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Kellen Giraud (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL)
Creating Physics-Informed Synthetic Data to Train a Digital Twin for Predicting Reactor Operations
1:42–1:49PM MDT
Jaden Palmer (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Ashley Shields (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
Development of Machine Learning-Based Electrochemical Monitoring for Molten Chloride Salt Reactors
1:49–1:56PM MDT
Wonseok Yang (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyeongbin Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Jihun Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Saehyun Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Sungyeol Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Resolution Limitations of Aerosol Measuring Equipment
1:56–2:03PM MDT
Hyunjin Boo (Soonchunhyang Univ.), Min-Ho Lee (FNC Technology Co.), Byung Gi Park (Soonchunhyang Univ.)
Source Term Modeling for Advanced Gas Micro-Reactors
2:03–2:10PM MDT
Alexandra Raichart (INL), Benjamin Stoyer (INL), David Petti (INL)
Material and Ground Activation from Minimally Shielded Transportable Reactor
2:10–2:17PM MDT
R. Demuth (Univ. South Carolina), A. Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), S. Bays (INL), M. Phipps (Univ. South Carolina), T. Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
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