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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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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|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Anemone
Session Chair:
Konstantinos Prantikos
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Using Generative Pretrained Transformer to Perform System Theoretic Process Analysis for Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
10:00–10:20AM EST
Paridhi Athe (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Edward Chen (INL), Tate H. Shorthill (INL), Nam Dinh (NCSU)
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Retrieval Augmented Generation for Liquid Sodium Facility Documentation Processing
10:20–10:40AM EST
Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue Univ.), Venetis Pallikaras (Georgia Tech), Maria Pantopoulou (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Nuclear TRIZ GPT: Integrating Large Language Model and TRIZ Methodologies for Nuclear Technology Innovation
10:40–11:00AM EST
Hyeon Ji Kim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulic System
11:00–11:20AM EST
Leveraging Large Language Models for Optimizing 10 CFR 50.59 Screening
11:20–11:40AM EST
A. Bakshi (Blue Wave AI Labs), M. Brasel (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Tunga (Blue Wave AI Labs), S. Banerjee (Blue Wave AI Labs), P. McCalley (Blue Wave AI Labs), J. Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), A. Kankkunen (Blue Wave AI Labs)
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