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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Thursday, July 20, 2023|8:00–9:30AM EDT|301A
Session Chair:
Xiaoxu Diao
Alternate Chair:
Sushil K. Birla
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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State of the Art for Addressing Hazards from Common Causes in Engineering Digital Instrumentation & Control (I&C) Systems
8:00–8:25AM EDT
Sushil Birla (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
An Evaluation Approach to Common Cause Failures for Instrumentation and Control Systems Design
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State), Boyuan Li (Ohio State), Carol Smidts (Ohio State)
Failure Modes of Programmable Logic Circuits
8:50–9:15AM EDT
Raimund J. Heigl (TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service), Horst Miedl (TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service)
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