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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Alternate Chair:
Michael D. Muhlheim
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Identification and Prioritization of Sources of Uncertainty in External Hazard Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Project Update
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Michelle Bensi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Katrina Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zhegang Ma (INL), Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Camille Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
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Technical Approach to the High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) Issue
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Marko Randelovic (EPRI), Ashley Lindeman (EPRI), Dane Lovelace (Jensen Hughes), Victor Ontiveros (Jensen Hughes), Sean Hunt (Jensen Hughes), Jason Floyd (UL Research Institutes), Ken Fleischer (Fleischer Consultants)
Integrating Seismic Fragility of ASR-Affected Nuclear Containment Vessel in a Level-II SPRA in Support of Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Somayajulu L. N. Dhulipala (INL), Benjamin W. Spencer (INL), Albert Dahal (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
On Truncation of Seismic Fragility Curves
4:30–4:55PM EDT
James C. Lin (ABS Consulting)
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