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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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University of Rochester and Focused Energy establish $6.9 million partnership
Focused Energy and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have established a $6.9 million partnership agreement to collaborate on fundamental challenges in inertial fusion energy.
Technical Session|Nuclear Installations Safety (NISD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Room 9
Session Chair:
Yunfei Zhao
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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Evaluating passive and active safety systems reliability
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Romney B. Duffey (Self), Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano), Richard R. Schultz (Idaho State University)
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Introduction to a New Sampling-based Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Tool
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Joseph F. O'Leary (University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering), Mohamed Nassar, Lia Anderson (University of Maryland, College Park), Yunfei Zhao
Evaluating the Significance of Dynamic Interaction Within Conventional PSA
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Donghee Choi (Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University), Man Cheol Kim (Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University)
Evaluating Scalability of Dose-Based Siting Boundaries for Multi-Unit Advanced Reactor Plants Using a Consequence-Driven Physical Security-Informed Framework
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Dillon Scott (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University), Miranda Lorenzo, Shaheen A. Dewji (Georgia Institute of Technology), Karen V. Kirkland (Texas A&M University)
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