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Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Brent D. Shumaker
Alternate Chair:
Katrina M. Groth
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Integrated Operations for Nuclear - ION
Kenneth D. Thomas (Idaho National Laboratory), S. J. Remer (Remer Consulting)
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On the Formalization of Development and Assessment Process for Digital Twins in the Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Han Bao (Idaho National Laboratory), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University)
Development and Assessment of Physics-guided Machine Learning for Prognosis System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University), Anil Gurgen (North Carolina State University)
Quantitative Reasoning and Risk Assessment with Dynamic Bayesian Network
Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Equipping Machine Learning with Uncertainty Quantification to Update Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants using NRC Licensee Event Reports
Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Catherine Blake (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Justin Pence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jaemin Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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