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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Strontium: Supply-and-demand success for the DOE’s Isotope Program
The Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) announced last week that it would end its “active standby” capability for strontium-82 production about two decades after beginning production of the isotope for cardiac diagnostic imaging. The DOE IP is celebrating commercialization of the Sr-82 supply chain as “a success story for both industry and the DOE IP.” Now that the Sr-82 market is commercially viable, the DOE IP and its National Isotope Development Center can “reassign those dedicated radioisotope production capacities to other mission needs”—including Sr-89.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Nathan Siu (Retired_NRC)
Alternate Chair:
Camille Levine (Univ MD, College Park)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Back to Basics: First Principles of HRA
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Torrey Mortenson (INL), Vincent Philip Paglioni (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ronald Boring (INL)
Paper
Base Standardized Plant Analysis Risk (SPAR) Model Human Failure Event Application of Integrated Human Event Analysis System for Event and Condition Assessment (IDHEAS-ECA)
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Christopher Hunter (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Qin Pan (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Y. James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Jing Xing (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Kevin Coyne (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
A Framework for Time-Based Human Reliability Evaluation Method in Dynamic PSA
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Wooseok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Estimating the Contributions to Human Error Probability from the Convolution of the Distribution of Time Available and Time Required
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Brett A. Jefferson (PNNL), Garill Coles (PNNL), Jessica Baweja (PNNL), Yung Hsien James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Rajiv Prasad (PNNL)
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