Call for Papers

I&C
  • Digital System Reliability
  • Advanced Sensors and Measurement Techniques
  • Controls in New Construction Reactors
  • Safety Critical Software Development and Qualification
  • Reactor Noise Analysis
  • Digital Upgrade Issues in and Evolving Regulatory Environment
  • Acceptance of Commercial Digital Instrumentation
  • Regulatory Aspects of I&C in New Construction Reactors
  • Generic Pre-Qualification of Digital Platforms
  • Implementation of Risk Informed Regulation
  • Licensing Issues for Advanced I&C Technologies
  • I&C Issues for Generation IV Plants
  • Power Uprates Through Advanced I&C
  • Next Generation I&C Systems
  • Education of NPP I&C Professionals
  • Research Reactor I&C Applications
  • I&C Security & Network Security
  • Plant Safeguards and Security Systems
  • I&CArchitecture and Protocols
  • Emergency Response Information Systems
  • Environmental Compatibility
  • Maintenance and Condition Monitoring
  • Diagnostics and Predictive Maintenance
  • Wireless Applications in Nuclear Power
  • I&C Applications for Physical and Cyber Security
  • Lessons learned in Digital Upgrades
  • Age-Related Degradation of Instrumentation Loops
 HMIT
  • Utility Experience with Control Room Modernization Programs
  • Current Concepts in Advanced Control Rooms
  • Designing Large Information Systems
  • Function-Based Approaches to Control Room Design
  • HFE Design and Analysis Tools
  • Data Mining in Nuclear Power Plants: Applications and Methods
  • User Interaction with Automation
  • Knowledge Capture and Engineering
  • Applications of Technology to Enhanced Maintenance Operations
  • Innovative approaches to Training and Training Technologies
  • Designing Better Alarm Systems
  • Applications of Risk Analysis in the Design and Evaluation of I&C and HMIT Systems
  • Challenges in Conducting HRA for Advanced Reactors
  • Computerized Operator Decision and Support Systems
  • Human Behavioral Modeling in the Nuclear Environment
  • Virtual Reality: Applications and Issues
  • HRA Challenges in advanced nuclear power systems
  • Approaches to HFE Verification and Validation
  • Human Factors Issues in Engineering Education
  • Human Factors and Plant Security and Safeguards
  • Computerized Procedure Systems
  • Regulatory Challenges and Approaches to Advanced Systems
  • New approaches to automation as a "team player"

Deadlines
Revised Dates!
Oct. 15, 2008 Abstract submission.
Nov. 21, 2008 Notification of acceptance.
Jan. 12, 2009 Full paper submission.

Questions?

Contact:

Richard Wood, ORNL, (865) 574-5578

Wes Hines, UTK, (865) 974-6561, jhines2@utk.edu

Belle Upadhyaya, UTK, (865)-974-7576, bupadhya@utk.edu

Bruce Hallbert, INL, (208) 526-9867, Bruce.Hallbert@inl.gov

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