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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|Instrumentation, Control Systems, and Cyber Security
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Trail/Spirit
Session Chair:
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Mark L. Wetzel
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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A Gap Analysis for Molten Salt Digital Twin Technology
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Lauren Bailey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Development of Automated Data Collection for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Fission Fragments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
George Sun (Univ. Michigan), Liana Zhou (Univ. Michigan), Londrea Garrett (Univ. Michigan), Ammon N. Williams (INL), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan)
A Comparative Analysis of Students and Trained Operators' Mental Workload in the Testing of Thermal Power Dispatch Concept of Operations
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Olugbenga Gideon (Univ. Idaho), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho), Benjamin K. Barton (Univ. Idaho), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL)
Thimble Plug Handling Tool - Senior Design Project
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Benjamin B. Passyn (Virginia Tech), Sean R. Wiger (Virginia Tech), Brett Scalco (Virginia Tech), Moody Awad (Virginia Tech), Jordan Amarchih (Virginia Tech)
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