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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Aslak Stubsgaard
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David S. Grabaskas
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Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Approaches to Safety Analysis and Classification for Microreactors
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Alan Smith (Oklo Inc.), Patrick Everett (Oklo Inc.), Kellen McCarroll (Oklo Inc.), Alex Renner (Oklo Inc.)
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Application of a Qualitative Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Approach for the MARVEL Microreactor at the Idaho National Laboratory
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Doug Gerstner (INL), Jason Andrus (INL), Amanda Foley (INL), Troy Reiss (INL)
Reducing the Maintenance Cost of Advanced Nuclear Reactors under Risk Constraints through Condition Monitoring, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, and Maintenance Optimization
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Yunfei Zhao (Univ. Maryland)
Addressing Uncertainties Across All Design Stages of Advanced Reactors Development
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Risk Informed Material Categorization
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Brian Kloiber (Oklo Inc.)
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