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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|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Jeremy Bittan (EdF)
Alternate Chair:
Fabio Giannetti (Univ of Rome)
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Comparison Between EDF MAAP5.04, EPRI MAAP5.06 and CATHARE Codes on Hypothetical Accidental Transients Leading to a Core Damage on the NUWARD SMR Design
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Jeremy Bittan (EDF)
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The iPWR MELCOR 2.2 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Mateusz Malicki (Paul Scherrer Institute), Piotr Darnowski (Warsaw Univ. Technology), Terttaliisa Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Analyses of the MELCOR Capability to Simulate Integral PWR Using Passive Systems
4:10–4:30PM EDT
F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Imperatori (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. D'Onorio (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Garcia (CIEMAT), L. E. Herranz (CIEMAT), A. Bersano (ENEA), F. Mascari (ENEA)
Advanced FCVS System Using Silver Zeolite AgX, AgR and XeA
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Yoshihiro Ishikawa (Rasa Industries), Koji Endo (Rasa Industries), Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), V.K. Arumugam (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute), Yuta Nakasaka (Hokkaido Univ.), Yasuhiro Kawahara (Kimura Chemical Plants Co.)
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Sensitivity Analysis of Heat Transfer Limit Under IVR-ERVC Condition Based on a Newly Developed CHF Model
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Gang Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Shilei Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Bo Kuang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Pengfei Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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