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2022 ANS Annual Meeting
June 12–16, 2022
Anaheim, CA|Anaheim Hilton
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Cost drivers of nuclear steam cycle construction
Interest in reducing carbon emissions around the world continues to climb. As a complement to the increasing deployment of variably generating renewables, advanced nuclear is commonly shown in net-zero grid modeling for 2050 because it represents firm electricity production that can flex in output with load demands.1 However, these projections are challenged by the high levelized cost of electricity associated with legacy nuclear construction, which is often more than double that of modern combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|9:00–10:45AM (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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