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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Integrating Waste Management for Advanced Reactors: The Universal Canister System and Project UPWARDS
When the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy launched the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) program in 2022, it posed a challenge that the nuclear industry had never seriously confronted before: how to design waste management solutions that anticipate the coming shift to advanced reactors and not merely retrofit existing systems built for an older generation of technology. The program’s objectives were ambitious—reduce disposal footprint, enable scalable pathways for unfamiliar waste streams, and build the technical foundations for future disposal—yet also tightly grounded in the realities of emerging nuclear fuel cycles. For the nuclear community, this was a timely call. Advanced reactors were accelerating toward deployment, but the waste management systems needed to support them had not kept pace.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Kent Welter
Alternate Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
Session will conclude with remarks from Kyle Hope (Westinghouse) on Lessons Learned from eVinci Nuclear Test Reactor PRA Peer Review.
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Pilots’ Readiness to Fly - Lower the Risk Caused by Alcohol Consumption Using Facial Recognition Technology
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Yanbing Chen (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Mingyi Wang (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Joao Souza Dias Garcia (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Shuzhen Luo (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
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Complex System Diagnostics Using LLM-Informed Models and Knowledge Graphs
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Saman Marandi (Univ. Maryland), Yu-Shu Hu (DML), Mohammad Modarres (Univ. Maryland)
Automation Trustworthiness and Transparency in Nuclear Power Plants: Definitions, Methodologies, and Case Studies
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Muhammad Hammad Khalid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ha Bui (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Seyed Reihani (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Artificial Neural Network-Based Approach for Computing Fussell-Vesely Importance Measures in Fault Tree Analysis
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Xingyu Xiao (Tsinghua Univeristy), Wenjing Li (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., LTD), Peng Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ben Qi (Tsinghua Univeristy), Jingang Liang (INET, Tsinghua University), Jiejuan Tong (INET, Tsinghua University), Haitao Wang (National Tsinghua University)
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