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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Nuclear Dirigo
On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Mehdi Reisi Fard (NRC)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (University of Maryland)
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A Risk-Informed Assessment of Operational Options for Successfully Avoiding a Trip Setpoint
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Michael D. Muhlheim (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), Alex Huning (ORNL), Abhinav Saxena (GE Research)
Paper
Estimation of Nuclear Power Plant Train Unavailability Using Nonparametric Bootstrap
1:25–1:50PM EDT
John Merickel (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL)
Molten Salt Reactors Reliability Database: MOSARD
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), Andrew Worrall (ORNL), George F. Flanagan (ORNL)
Characterization of Dynamic Behaviors in Licensee Event Report Data to Support PRA
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Hideki Sekiguchi (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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