INL 50 STATES IMPACT 2018 | 59 • • Cardno • • Golder Federal Services • • University ofTennessee (5) • • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (18) • • Vanderbilt University • • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (8) • • University ofTennessee (6) • • Yellowstone Energy (2) HighPerformanceComputingUsers Publications VivekAgarwal,aresearchscientistatINL,was partofaresearchteamthatwonaNuclear EnergyUniversityProgram(NEUP)Research andDevelopmentawardinFY-18.Entitled, “ImprovingNuclearPowerPlantEfficiency throughDataAnalytics,”theprojectswill addressimprovingtheefficiencyofnuclear powerplantsthroughtheuseofdataanalysis. Specifically,theprojectaimstoimprove efficiencybydevelopingamethodologyto collectnecessarymeasurementsfromother sourcesintheeventsensorsdegrade,by combiningseveraldisparatedatasourcesto optimallyinformmaintenanceandcapital replacementdecisions,andbydeveloping dataanalyticsolutionstoimproveoverall organizationaleffectiveness.