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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Jefferson East
Session Chair:
Kyle C. Hartig
Alternate Chair:
Lei R. Cao
Session Organizer:
Igor Jovanovic
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In-Situ Detection of Neodymium Isotope Using Laser Ablation -- Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy
10:00–10:20AM EST
Sung-Uk Choi (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Jong-Il Yun (KAIST)
Paper
Assessment of Performance for Algorithms Estimating Cosmic Ray Muon Trajectories
10:20–10:40AM EST
Reshma Ughade (Purdue), JungHyun Bae (ORNL), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
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Using the Oak Ridge Subcritical Assembly for Gamma Ray Measurements
10:40–11:00AM EST
Walid A. Metwally (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
Xenon Detection Using Double-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
11:00–11:20AM EST
L.J. Garrett (Univ. Michigan), M. Burger (Univ. Michigan), Y. Lee (KAIST), H. Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), P. Sabharwall (INL), S. Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), I. Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan)
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