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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Rodney Busquim (IAEA)
Alternate Chair:
Fan Zhang (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (ANS)
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Development of a Cyber Response Strategy Establishment Method for Minimizing the Potential Risk from Cyber-Attacks in NPPs
Chanyoung Lee (KAIST), Young Ho Chae (KAIST), Poong Hyun Seong (KAIST)
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Cyber-Informed Engineering Case Study of an Integrated Hydrogen Generation Plant
Shannon Eggers (INL), Katya LeBlanc (INL), Robert Youngblood (INL), Tim McJunkin (INL), Konor Frick (INL), Daniel Wendt (INL), Robert Anderson (INL)
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Cyber Risks to the Operational Technology Architectures of Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
Ray Fasano (Sandia National Laboratories), Chris Lamb (Sandia National Laboratories), Mike Rowland (Sandia National Laboratories)
Cybersecurity Threat Scenario for a Hypothetical Nuclear Power Plant Facility
Krystian Szefler (National Centre for Nuclear Research), Marcin Dudek (National Centre for Nuclear Research), Jacek Gajewski (National Centre for Nuclear Research), Kinga Pankiewicz (National Centre for Nuclear Research), Jakub Suchorab (National Centre for Nuclear Research), Joanna Walkiewicz (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Enhancing Safety and Security of Digital Instrumentation and Control System by Event Aggregation
Robert Altschaffel (Otto von Guericke Univ.), Fan Zhang (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Jianghai Li (Tsinghua Univ.), Jonas Hielscher (Otto von Guericke Univ.), Tamas Holczer (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), Wen Si (Tsinghua Univ.), Kevin Lamshöft (Otto von Guericke Univ.)
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