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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Purdue/Wisconsin
Session Chair:
Michelle Bensi
Alternate Chair:
Rick Grantom
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Towards Uncertainty Quantification : Efficient Surrogate Models In Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction For Fuel Assembly Bow
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Ali Abboud (CEA - Ecole Polytechnique l'X), Josselin Garnier (CMAP, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France), Bertrand Leturcq (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Service d'Études Mécaniques et Thermiques, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Nicolas Lamorte (Framatome, 2 rue du Professeur Jean-Bernard, 69007 Lyon, France), Stanislas d. Lambert (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Service d'Études Mécaniques et Thermiques, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
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Bayesian Network as a Surrogate Model for Physical Simulations in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Jingyu Chen (University of Pittsburgh), Tatsuya Sakurahara (University of Pittsburgh)
Guiding the Formulation of Surrogate Values of Modeling Input Parameters in Screening Analysis of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Sari Alkhatib (ANL), Tatsuya Sakurahara (University of Pittsburgh), Seyed-A. Reihani (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Incorporating Time-Dependent Delays in Conventional PSA for SLOCA
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Dong Hee Choi (School of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea), Man Cheol Kim (School of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University)
Bridging Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Models for Advanced Nuclear Reactors Through Inverse Uncertainty Quantification
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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