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Jefferson Lab awarded $8M for accelerator technology to enable transmutation
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is leading research supported by two Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) grants aimed at developing accelerator technology to enable nuclear waste recycling, decreasing the half-life of spent nuclear fuel.
Both grants, totaling $8.17 million in combined funding, were awarded through the Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) program, which aims to enable the transmutation of nuclear fuels by funding novel technologies for improving the performance of particle generation systems.
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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