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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Robert Budnitz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab (ret0)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai Diaconeasa (North Carolina State U)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Risk Applications of Extreme Seismic Hazard Modeling
2:50–3:20PM EST
Luke McSweeney (X-energy)
Paper
Challenges and Lessons Learned During the Development of an AP1000® Plant Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment
3:20–3:50PM EST
Rachel Christian (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Andrea Maioli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Mustafa Ozkan (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Kai Zhang (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Parthasarathy Chandran (Southern Co.), Benny Ratnagaran (Southern Co.)
Experience Feedback From Implementation of Seismic PSA on EDF 900 MWe Units
3:50–4:20PM EST
Hugo Jadot (EDF), Thi-Lien Do (EDF), Emilie Poirier (EDF), Olivier Fabre (EDF)
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