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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Recurrent Neural Networks to Predict Reactor Operations using Physics-Informed Data and Rolling Statistics
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Jaden Palmer (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Ashley Shields (INL)
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Computational Error Field Validation Experiments on HIDRA
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Arnav Goyal (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Steven Gula (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nina Mihajlov (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
OpenMC Validation Using Neutron Activation Experimental Data
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Saurav Bastola (Univ. Texas, Austin), Haider A. Nazir (Univ. Texas, Austin), Maximilian Vreclj (Univ. Texas, Austin), Madison Brooks (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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