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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Gallego and Risch submit ARC Act 2.0 in the Senate
Sens. Jim Risch (R., Idaho) and Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) reintroduced the Accelerating Reliable Capacity (ARC) Act in the Senate on February 10.
According to the Department of Energy, it could take up to 10 deployments for a reactor design to become a mature commercial reactor. Getting from the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) to full commercial deployment is challenging, and the risks of higher costs and longer deployment timelines for early nuclear projects create significant uncertainty for investors. The ARC Act is designed to reduce that early deployment risk.
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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