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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
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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