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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M Uni.)
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Comparison of Various DNN Modelling Strategies for Assembly Node Averaged Multigroup Cross Section Representation for Nodal Codes
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Yi Meng Chan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Jan Dufek (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Paper
An Alternative Approach for Group Constants Regression Based on Supervised Learning Techniques
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Lorenzo Loi (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Riva (Politecnico di Milano), Carolina Introini (Politecnico di Milano), Enrico Padovani (Politecnico di Milano), Francesca Giacobbo (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Predicting PWR Fuel Assembly CIPS Susceptibility with Convolutional Neural Networks: Performance and Uncertainty Quantification
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Aidan Furlong (NCSU), Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear), Stanley Hayes (Duke Power), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Monte Carlo with Single-Cycle Latency: Optimization of a Continuous Energy Cross Section Lookup Kernel for AI Accelerator Hardware
2:30–2:50PM PDT
John Tramm (ANL), Bryce Allen (ANL), Kazutomo Yoshii (ANL), Andrew Siegel (ANL)
Advancements in the Genetic-Driven Optimisation of the Few-Group Structures for Lead Fast Reactors Analysis
2:50–3:10PM PDT
A. Aimetta (Politecnico di Torino), N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), M. Massone (ENEA), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
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