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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
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)