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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Monday, July 17, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
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Risk-Informed Analysis of the Application of Accident Tolerant Fuels in the SPAR-CSN Probabilistic Safety Assessment Model
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Sergio Courtin (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), César Queral (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), Alberto García-Herranz (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), Jorge Sánchez Torrijos (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), David Canal (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), Julia Herrero-Otero (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid)
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A Pragmatic Approach in the Selection of a Tritium Computer Model for Accident Consequence Analysis
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Kevin R. O'Kula (Nuclear Safety Consultant)
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Synthesis of Insights Regarding Current PRA Technologies for Risk-Informed Decision Making
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Joy Shen (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Saman Marandi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Michelle Bensi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Mohammad Modarres (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
A Method for Determining Contributions from Advanced Risk Model Quantifications
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Nathan DeKett (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Eric Jorgenson (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Dennis Henneke (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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