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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session|Cosponsored by PSA
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Jooyoung Park
Alternate Chair:
Ronald L. Boring
Session Organizer:
Jonghyun Kim
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Why do Human-Machine Teams Fail: Investigating Failure Mechanisms in Human Reliability Analysis
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Vincent Philip Paglioni (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Camille S. Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
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Causal Pathways Leading to Human Failure Events in Information-Gathering System Response Activities
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Camille S. Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Advanced Human-System Interface Risk Analysis Based on Redundancy-Guided Systems-Theoretic Hazard Analysis and Human Reliability Analysis
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Jooyoung Park (INL), Edward Chen (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jisuk Kim (INL), Sai Zhang (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
HAMSTER -- A New EDF HRA-Type C Methodology
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Jean-François Enjolras (EDF Technical Direction), Anne Gailleton (EDF Technical Direction)
Presented by Cécile Luzior (EDF)
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