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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom H
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Jamie Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Industry Survey: Barriers for Adoption of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems for Advanced Reactor Deployment and Retrofit of Existing Reactors
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Edward Chen (INL), Tate Shorthill (INL), Edward Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions)
Paper
Development of an Update to ISA S67.04 and RP 67.04: "Setpoints for Nuclear Safety-Related Instrumentation for Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Edward L. Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions), Ryan Hoover (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ron Jarrett (Paragon Energy Solutions), David Rahn (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Evaluating IEC 62671: Implications for Safety Justification of Embedded Digital Devices in I&C Systems
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Sofia Guerra (Themistoclea), Luke Hinde (Adelard, Part of NCC Group), Ben Phillips (Adelard, Part of NCC Group)
Nuclear Energy Agency's Consensus Position on the Common Cause Failure in Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems – Evaluation Framework
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Ismael L. Garcia (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Presented by Samir Darbali (NRC)
The IEC Standard Series on Cybersecurity for I&C and Electrical Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Edward L. Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions), Ludovic Pietre-Cambacedes (EDF), Thomas Walter (Preussen Elektra), Juergen Bochtler (Siemens Energy), Michael T. Rowland (Sandia)
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