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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session|Cosponsored by PSA
Monday, July 17, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301A
Session Chair:
Mary R. Presley
Alternate Chair:
Ronald L. Boring
Session Organizer:
Lou Martinez Sancho
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Application of Human Reliability Analysis to DI&C Control Room Modernization
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Jing Xing (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Y. James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
A Unified Approach: Human Factors, Human Reliability and Human Performance Data for Digital Systems
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Mary Presley (EPRI), Matt Gibson (EPRI)
Time-Dependent Human Reliability of Nuclear Power Plants with Digital Interfaces
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Wondea Jung (KAERI)
Preliminary Empirical Findings on Dependency from a Simulator Study
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Ronald Boring (INL), Thomas Ulrich (INL), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho), Anna Hall (INL), Jooyoung Park (INL), Jisuk Kim (INL)
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