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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
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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