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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Uncertainty Quantification for Passive Safety System and Treatment of Model Uncertainty
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Gyun Seob Song (Chung-Ang Univ.), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Paper
ASPIC: Assessment of Parameter Influence on Value Clusters in an Uncertainty Analysis
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Tanja Eraerds (GRS), Martina Kloos (GRS), Jörg Peschke (GRS), Josef Scheuer (GRS), Jan Soedingrekso (GRS)
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Assessment of Uncertainty in Scenario Development for External Hazard Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Michelle Bensi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zhegang Ma (INL), Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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