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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
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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