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Hanford contractor settles fraud suit for $3.45M
Hanford Site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) has agreed to pay the Department of Justice $3.45 million as part of a settlement agreement resolving allegations that HMIS overcharged the Department of Energy for millions of dollars in labor hours at the nuclear site in Washington state.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Purdue/Wisconsin
Session Chair:
David Grabaskas
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jonathen Facemire
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Developing a Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for Sodium-Cooled Thermal Reactors: Addressing Unique Challenges and Uncertainties
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Asmaa S. Farag (Aalo Atomics), Parthasarathy Chandran (Aalo Atomics), Amir Afzali (Aalo Atomics), Curtis Smith (INL)
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Multi-Unit Modeling Challenges and Considerations for Xe-100 PRA Event Sequence Models
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Huafei Liao (X-Energy LLC), Mostafa Hamza (X-energy), Drew Nigh (X-energy), Jack Anderson (X-energy), Olivier Retourne (X-energy), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Application Research of the TI-RIPB Licensing Basis in China's Multi-Module High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Jun Zhao (National Tsinghua University), Jiejuan Tong (INET, Tsinghua University), Yanhua Zheng (INET, Tsinghua university), Jingang Liang (INET,Tsinghua university), liguo Zhang (INET,Tsinghua university), Fubing Chen (INET,Tsinghua university), Hongru Zhao (INET, Tsinghua university)
Presented by Xingyu Xiao (National Tsinghua University)
Important Human Actions for Advanced Reactors: Implications for Risk Analysis
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Jooyoung Park (INL), Torrey Mortenson (INL), Rachael Hill (INL), Casey Robert Kovesdi (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL)
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