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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 9/10
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
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Sensitivity Analysis of Consequential Steam Generator Tube Rupture (C-SGTR) of Typical Korean NPP
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Byeonghee Lee (KAERI), Jin Ho Song (KAERI), Kwang Soon Ha (KAERI)
Paper
A Methodology for Real-Time Identification of a PWR Accident and Predictive Analysis
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Paul McMinn (Fauske & Assoc.), Nick Karancevic (Fauske & Assoc.), Chan Y. Paik (Fauske & Assoc.), Wei Wei (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.), Ma Guoyang (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.)
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Hysteresis Impacts in Steady Flow Transitions of the Rayleigh Bénard Problem with Internal Heating; Implications on Heat Transfer Margin in External Reactor Vessel Cooling Strategies
11:25–11:45AM EDT
A. Lentner (George Washington Univ.), E. Balaras (George Washington Univ.)
Source Term Uncertainty Analysis of Severe Accidents in Nordic BWRs
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Govatsa Acharya (Royal Institute of Technology), Ioannis Komlikis (Royal Institute of Technology), Dmitry Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology), Sergey Galushin (Vysus Group)
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