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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Acacia
Session Chair:
Jenna Payne (DOE-NE)
Alternate Chair:
Julie Jacobson (NEUP/INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Cyber-Secure Network Architecture for Nuclear Power Plants
3:15–3:35PM MST
David Arnold (Illinois Institute of Technology), Jafar Saniie (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Paper
Deconvolving of Strain from Fiber Optic Sensor Measurements at Elevated Temperatures
3:35–3:55PM MST
Alastair B. Luna (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Development of a Quantum-Based Cyber-Physical Testbed for Secure Communications in Nuclear Reactor Environments
3:55–4:15PM MST
Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), True Miller (Purdue), Brian Jowers (Purdue), Ryan Smith (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Developing a High-Fidelity Benchmark of the AGN-201M Under NEUP 21-24360
4:15–4:35PM MST
Rowdy Davis (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Forrest B. Brown (Univ. New Mexico), Robert D. Busch (Univ. New Mexico), Carl Willis (Univ. New Mexico), Larry L. Wetzel (LL Wetzel), Shawn J. Henderson (Sandia)
Integral Benchmark Evaluation of Zero-Power Tests and Multi-Cycle Depletion Experimental Data of TVA WB1 Cycles 1-3
4:35–4:55PM MST
T. Albagami (NCSU), P. Rouxelin (NCSU), S. Palmtag (NCSU), M. Avramova (NCSU), K. Ivanov (NCSU)
Utilizing Long Short Term Memory Networks in an Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection for Thermal Mixing in a Water Loop
4:55–5:15PM MST
Alexandra Akins (NCSU), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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