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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Markus Porthin (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Sung-Min Shin (KAERI)
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (ANS)
This session will also include a panel discussion on the research and development needs concerning reliability modeling of digital I&C. Panelists: Hongbin Zhang (INL) Sung-Min Shin (KAERI) Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Paolo Picca (Office For Nuclear Regulation)
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Integrated Risk Assessment of Digital I&C Safety Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
Hongbin Zhang (INL), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Edward Quinn (Technology Resources)
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WGRISK DIGMAP: Comparison of PSA Modeling Approaches for Digital I&C
Markus Porthin (Paul Scherrer Institut), Sung-Min Shin (KAERI), Milan Jaros (ÚJV Řež), Jiri Sedlak (ÚJV Řež), Paolo Picca (Office for Nuclear Regulation), Richard Quatrain (EDF), Jeanne Demgné (EDF), Hans Brinkman (NRG), Venkat Natarajan (NRG), Tero Tyrväinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Christian Müller (Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Ewgenij Piljugin (Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
Risk Comparison Among Design Options of RPS with Diverse PLC and FPGA Systems
Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kwang-Seop Son (KAERI), Seung Hwan Seong (KAERI)
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