NC State nuclear engineering students presented at the 2023 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Meeting in Washington, DC.

• Allie Akins (PhD student) presented on “Detection of Incipient Anomalies in Nuclear Systems Through Fusion of Multisensory Data with LSTM Autoencoder”. Faculty adviser: Dr. Xu Wu
• Davis Bryars (PhD student) presented two papers –
  • “Demonstration of Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in Molten Salts“
    Co-author: Dr. Alexander Bataller
  • Contact Glow Discharge Electrolysis: A Novel Tool for Material Quantification in Molten Salts”
    Co-authors: Kayla Hahn & Dr. Alexander Bataller
• Jonathan Crozier (PhD student) presented on “Phonon-Informed Neural Thermal Scattering (NeTS) Optimization for Crystalline Graphite and Beryllium Metal”
  Co-author: Dr. Ayman Hawari
• Aidan Furlong (PhD student) presented on “Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Crud Buildup Locations in Pressurized Water Reactors”.
  Faculty adviser: Dr. Xu Wu
• Lauren Kohler (senior) presented on “LSTM Autoencoder Prediction of Distributed Temperature in Liquid Sodium Using Measurements with Co-located Fiber Optic Sensor and Sparse Multi-Point Thermocouple Array”
  Faculty adviser: Dr. Xu Wu
• Matthew Schweitzer presented on “Analysis of Neutronic Parameters using MCNP 6.2 for the Molten Salt Irradiation Facility at the PULSTAR Reactor”
  Faculty adviser: Dr. Ayman Hawari
• Andy Rivas presented on “Operation Optimization Framework for Advanced Reactors Using a Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Digital Twin“.
  Paper co-written by Drs. Jason Hou and Gregory Delipei