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ANS Congressional Fellowship program seeks 2027 applicants
Earlier this week, ANS opened the application process for the 2027 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship, offering ANS members an opportunity to contribute directly to federal policymaking in Washington, D.C. Applications are due June 6.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Zahra Mohagegh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
Dave Grabaskas (ANL)
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Enhancing Expert Elicitation in Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Advanced Reactors: A Counterfactual and Causal Modeling Approach
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Rawan M. Mustafa (NCSU), Yahya Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Refining Failure Probability Estimation in Advanced Nuclear Reactors through Inverse Problem Computation
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Rawan M. Mustafa (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Enhancing ADS-IDAC with High-Performance Computing: Implementation Challenges and Preliminary Results
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Alp Tezbasaran (NCSU Libraries Data and Visualization Services), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Evaluating FRI3D for Cost Savings in Fire Hazard Analysis at DOE Sites
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Steven Prescott (INL), Emerald Ryan (INL), Brant Campbell (INL), Svetlana Lawrence (INL), Dustin Stokes (INL), Robby Christian (INL)
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Incorporating Fault Injection Testing Results of Digital I&Cs into Probabilistic Risk Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Priyanka Maruti Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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