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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
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
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The SAIGA In-Pile Experimental Test to Study the Degradation of a SFR Core with Mitigation Devices in Severe Accident Conditions
9:00–9:20AM EDT
F. Payot (CEA), F. Charollais (CEA), E. Dufour (CEA), Y. Lejeail (CEA), G. Blevin (CEA), L. Trotignon (CEA), G. De Izarra (CEA), F. Michel (CEA), V. Dupont (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA), R. Clavier (CEA), E. Batyrbekov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Vurim (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Pakhnits (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), V. Baklanov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Paper
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Experiments and Modeling of Water-Cooled SMR Severe Accidents to Inform Level 4 and 5 Defence-in-Depth
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Luke Lebel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Andrew Morreale (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Eric Jia (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Feng Zhou (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), David Hummel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Scott Ormiston (Univ. Manitoba), Geoffrey Gray (Univ. Manitoba)
Preliminary Analysis of Severe Accident in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Using Eutectic Reaction Model of Boron-Carbide Control-Rod Material
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Morita (Kyushu Univ.)
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