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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)
Thursday, July 20, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Mohamed Hibti (EDF)
Alternate Chair:
Sai Zhang (INL)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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The Readiness of Risk Analysis Methods and Tools for Advanced Reactors
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Eric Thornsbury (EPRI), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes)
Paper
Impact Assessment of the Updated Corium Coolability Evaluation Approach and of the Ultimate Accident Mitigation Means Regarding Level 2 PSA Risk Metrics
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Shizhen Yu (Tractebel ENGIE), Cristina Hilario (Tractebel ENGIE)
Risk Aggregation, Scaling, and the Financial Loss Equivalent
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Mark Wishart (EPRI), David Vose (Archer Integrated Risk Management), Fernando Ferrante (EPRI)
Presented by Eric Thornsbury (EPRI)
Methodology and Demonstration for Performance Analysis of a Probabilistic Risk Assessment Quantification Engine: SCRAM
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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