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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom C
Session Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Alternate Chair:
Jon Facemire
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Preliminary Assessment of Bleed and Feed During Total Loss of Feedwater (TLOFW) Accident in a 4-Loop PWR to Inform Dynamic PRA (DPRA) Efforts
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Asmaa A. Farag (NCSU), Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Development of a FATE Model for Severe Accident Analysis of Non-LWR Facilities
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Ryan Som (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Mark Hillary (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Luciano Maniaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Robert Jakub (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Yizhou Yan (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Christian Renk (WEC DBA Fauske & Associates), Kayla Watanabe (WEC DBA Fauske & Associates)
Predictive Decision-Making in Support of the Selection of Degree of Realism in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Sari Alkhatib (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Seyed-A. Reihani (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
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