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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Alex Huning (ORNL)
Alternate Chairs:
Robby Christian
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Facilitating PRA Model Accessibility: Model Converter Utility from SAPHIRE to OpenPSA
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Hasibul Hossain Rasheeq (NCSU), Stephen T. Wood (INL), Jordan T. Boyce (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Synthetical Model Generator for Probabilistic Risk Assessment Tools: Enhancing Testing, Verifying and Learning
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Automated OpenPSA Model Generation from Reliability Diagrams Using Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Case Study on MHTGR
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Hasibul Hossain Rasheeq (NCSU), Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Parallel Computing Methods for Efficiently Solving Fault Trees in Probabilistic Safety Assessments
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Woo Sik Jung (Sejong University), Seong Kyu Park (Nuclear Engineering Services & Solutions), Chris Cragg (Cragg Consulting)
Design and Implementation of a Distributed Queueing System for OpenPRA
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Hasibul Hossain Rasheeq (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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