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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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Coming up: The 4th annual ARCSC workshop
The 4th Annual Advanced Reactor Codes and Standards Collaborative (ARCSC) Workshop will take place on December 4 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST). The event, which will be hosted at the Electric Power Research Institute’s office Washington, D.C., has a hybrid format, offering the opportunity for both in-person and virtual attendance. It’s focus is on sharing the ARCSC’s progress on developing codes and standards to support advanced reactor development and will also feature industry-focused breakout discussions, conversations with industry leaders, and more.
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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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