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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|State
Session Chair:
Wen-Chi Cheng (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Brian Greene (Johnson Service Group)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Grid Dispatchable Electricity from Nuclear Hydrogen Production for Industrial Facilities
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Charles W. Forsberg (MIT), John Parsons (MIT)
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Development Solid Oxide Electrolysis Models Using MATLB/Simulink and Parametric Study with Electrochemical Models for Nuclear Hydrogen Production
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jiwon Ahn (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Hyoung Kyu Cho (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Modeling and Simulation of High Temperature Electrolysis for Nuclear Hydrogen Production
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Manjur R. Basnet (Utah State University), Austin Gardiner (Utah State University), Hailei Wang (Utah State University)
Risk Analysis of Nuclear Co-located Hydrogen and Syngas Production
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Robby Christian (INL), Courtney Otani (INL), Kurt G. Vedros (INL)
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Development of Safety Analysis Framework for a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Integrated Energy System (IES) for Hydrogen Production
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Emily V. Meilus (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Isabelle Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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