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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
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 (Nuclear Installations Safety Division), Parthasarathy Chandran (Aalo Atomics), Amir Afzali (Aalo Atomics), Curtis L. Smith (INL)
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Xe-100 PRA Event Sequence Models in Risk-Informed Applications
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Huafei Liao (X-Energy LLC), Karl N. Fleming (KNF Consulting Services LLC), Glen I. Lawson (X-Energy LLC), 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)
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