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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Hash Hashemian: Visionary leadership
As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
Thomas A. Ulrich, Ronald L. Boring, Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 674-683
Nuclear power plants across the U.S. must become more efficient in their operations to remain cost competitive with alternative energy sources. Data driven condition monitoring for maintenance provides a promising avenue for reducing the operational costs. A critical element to data driven condition monitoring is effective visualizations to convey actionable information to the operator to support their decision making and enable preventative maintenance without causing the plant to come offline and lose revenue. This paper describes the state of visualization in the current fleet or nuclear power plants, the existing visualization technologies and techniques the nuclear industry can embrace now, and cutting-edge or state-of-the-art visualization techniques the nuclear industry should invest time and money in researching and developing to enable more efficient condition monitoring for maintenance activities.