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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Andrea Maioli
Alternate Chair:
Heather L. Detar
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Xe-100 PRA Event Sequence Modeling Framework
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Huafei Liao (X-energy), Karl Fleming (Technology Insights), Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Luke McSweeney (X-energy), Mark Cursey (X-energy), Eric Deeken (X-energy), Olivier Retourne (X-energy), Glen Lawson (X-energy), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Early Prediction and Classification of Heat Transfer Degradation in Coolant Channels Using Kramers-Moyal Coefficients
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Molly Ross (Purdue), Xu Chu (Univ. Stuttgart), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
Probabilistic Risk Assessment Goals for the eVinciTM Microreactor
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Heather Detar (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jim Scobel (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Josh Beckton (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
