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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
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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Matt Degonish (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (OSU)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Use of Machine Learning to Evaluate Maintenance Rule Functional Failures at Exelon
2:50–3:20PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Jenna M. Burr (Exelon Generation), Scott W. Diven (Exelon Generation)
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Fault Tree Generation From P&IDs Using Deep Learning
3:20–3:50PM EST
Jaydeep Thik (Ohio State Univ.), Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State Univ), Pavan Kumar Vaddi (Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (Ohio State Univ.)
Integration of Data Analytics With System Health Programs
3:50–4:20PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), R. Sugrue (Jensen Hughes), D. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.), C. Pope (Idaho State Univ.), J. Miller (Idaho State Univ.), S. Ercanbrack (Idaho State Univ.), D. Cole (Univ. of Pittsburgh), J. Yurko (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Use of Data Analytics to Evaluate Nuclear Plant Maintenance Historical Data
4:20–4:50PM EST
Stephen M. Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jonathan L. Hodges (Jensen Hughes), Stefan M. Kraft (Jensen Hughes), David Olack (EPRI), Jeff Greene (EPRI)
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