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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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)
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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)
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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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