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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Matthew D. Bucknor
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Digital Risk Analysis in Nuclear Engineering Projects: Designing for Safety, Performance, Reliability, and Security
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Shannon L. Eggers (INL), Robert W. Youngblood (INL)
Paper
Integration of NIS (Nuclear Instrumentation Systems) with FPGA based RPS controls as a Seamless Safety Control System and Hardware Platform
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Lewis Wetzel (Paragon Energy Solutions)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Consequence-Based Security for a Low Enriched UO2 Fueled Microreactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Jérémy Mangin (Ecole polytechnique), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), Neil Todreas (MIT)
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Implementing Multiple Control Paths in the Dual Error Propagation Graph for Stochastic Failure Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Laying the Foundations for the Development of a Probabilistic Model Checking Method to Quantify Common Cause Failure Parameters in Digital Instrumentation and Control
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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