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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Paul J. Amico
Alternate Chair:
Katrina Groth
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Insights, Limits, and Projections Regarding EDF's First Heat Wave PSA
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Cecile Luzoir (EDF R&D), François Cherpin (EDF), Diego Huescar (EDF), Manon Jouve (EDF)
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On Supporting the Assessment and Evaluation of Protection against External Hazards Using PSA
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Tamas Siklossy (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu), Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu)
Implications of License Renewal of Aging NPPs: A Case Study on the Impact of External Hazards on an Aging Containment Building
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Correlation Between Weather Alerts and Grid Component Failures for Grid Alert
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Steven Prescott (INL), Ronald Gonzales (INL), Kurt Vedros (INL), Daniel Nevius (INL), Bjorn Vaagensmith (INL), Jared Nielson (INL), Amara Tariq (INL)
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Seismic and Non-Seismic External Event PSA of the Slovak NPPs with VVER440 Reactors
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO Ltd), Pavol Hlavac (RELKO Ltd), Robert Spenlinger (RELKO Ltd)
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