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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
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Probabilistic Modelling of Asymmetries in the Electrical Power Supply System of Nuclear Power Plants
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Jan C. Stiller (GRS), Michael Paßens (GRS), Oliver Rest (GRS), Florian Berchtold (GRS)
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Upgrading a LERF PRA to Meet the ASME/ANS Level 2 PRA Standard
10:25–10:50AM EDT
N. Reed LaBarge (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Increasing the use of Risk Informed Applications in the United Kingdom
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Joshua Beckton (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Christopher Eames (EDF), David Sawyer (EDF)
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