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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Kevin R. O'Kula
Alternate Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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A PSA-Based Analysis of the IEC 61508 SIL Allocation for Enhancing the Applicability of Commercial Digital Devices in NPP's I&C
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Younghak Lee (school of energy systems engineering, chung-ang university), Man C. Kim (school of energy systems engineering, chung-ang university)
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Determining Risk Significant Digital I&C Failure Modes in the Probabilistic Risk Assessment of a Nuclear Power Plant
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Priyanka M. Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
There is No Software Common Cause - There is Only Common Cause
10:40–11:00AM CDT
John E. Weglian (EPRI), Wes Brinsfield (Jensen Hughes Inc.)
An Approach to Automate tools for the Risk Assessment of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Tate Shorthill (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Edward Chen (INL)
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