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Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Japan to survey Pacific island for potential HLW repository
Japan will study the possibility of siting a deep geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste on the remote island of Minamitorishima, about 1,200 miles southeast of Tokyo.
Masaaki Shibuya, mayor of the village of Ogasawara, reportedly expressed his willingness to allow Japan’s government to proceed with a preliminary survey, called a literature survey, of the island, which is one of several within the Ogasawara Islands.
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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