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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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IAEA report confirms safety of discharged Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
More information can be found on the IAEA’s Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge web page.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Paul Hunton (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Dan Goldberg (ANS)
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Health Monitoring of Digital I&C Systems Using Online Electronic Measurements
B. D. Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), C. J. Kiger (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), D. E. McCarter (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Paper
Applying Single Failure Criteria to Digital I&C Systems
Richard J. Stattel (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
New Licensing Process for Major Nuclear Digital Safety System Upgrades
Samir Darbali (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Fundamental Principles for the Design, Analysis and Regulation of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems used in Nuclear Power Plants
Steven A. Arndt (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
SymPLe: A Complexity-Aware Approach for Realizing Verifiable FPGA-Based Digital I&C for Safety Critical Applications
Richard Hite (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Christopher Deloglos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Athira Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aidan Collins (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Abhi Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Matt Gibson (Electric Power Research Institute)
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