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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hanford contractor settles fraud suit for $3.45M
Hanford Site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) has agreed to pay the Department of Justice $3.45 million as part of a settlement agreement resolving allegations that HMIS overcharged the Department of Energy for millions of dollars in labor hours at the nuclear site in Washington state.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David S. Grabaskas
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Leveraging Inverse Uncertainty Quantification to Enhance the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plant Construction Duration Estimation
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Regulatory Treatment of Low Frequency External Events under a Risk-Informed Performance-Based Licensing Pathway: Enhanced SPRA-based Margins Assessment
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Ben Chen (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)
Primary Site Selection for Air Freight Transport of Department of Defense Microreactors
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Thomas M. O'Connell (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Protecting Microreactors from Extreme External Threats
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Amaury Le Person (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Andrew Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)
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