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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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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|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Carol Smidts (Ohio State)
Alternate Chair:
John E. Weglian
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Analyzing Hardware and Software Common Cause Failures in Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems Using Dual Error Propagation Method
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Hazards and Consequences Analysis for Digital Systems (HAZCADS)
1:25–1:50PM EDT
John E. Weglian (EPRI), Matt Gibson (EPRI)
Sensitivity and Importance Analyses for Various Design Architectures for High Safety-Significant Safety-Related Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems of Nuclear Power Plants
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jooyoung Park (INL), Edward Chen (NCSU)
Preliminary Benchmarking of SAPHSOLVE, XFTA, and SCRAM Using Synthetically Generated Fault Trees with Common Cause Failures
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), S. Ted Wood (INL), Jordan Boyce (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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