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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Thursday, July 20, 2023|8:00–9:30AM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
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Zooming over PSA Models: Reducing PSA Models Without Loss of Generality
8:00–8:25AM EDT
M. Hibti (EDF), M. Hasseni (Assystem), N. Villatte (EDF)
Paper
Grouping and Initial Evaluation of Case Studies for Integrated Safety Assessment in the European BESEP Project
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Tamas Siklossy (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Pavol Hlavac (RELKO Engineering and Consulting Services), Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO Engineering and Consulting Services)
Prioritizing Security Target Sets Using Risk-Informed Analysis
8:50–9:15AM EDT
Ricky Summitt (ENERCON)
Safety Margin Quantification by Integrating Probabilistic and Deterministic Safety Assessments -- A Demonstration Example
9:15–9:40AM EDT
Shizhen Yu (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Pierre-Etienne Labeau (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel ENGIE)
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