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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Jin Kyun Park (KAERI)
Alternate Chair:
Vinh Dang (PSI)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Simulations for Probabilistic Safety Assessment: Important Data for Human Reliability Quantification
10:10–10:40AM EST
C. Picoco (EDF), V. Rychkov (EDF)
Paper
Phoenix Human Reliability Analysis Method: Application to a Feed and Bleed Operation
10:40–11:10AM EST
Marilia Ramos (UCLA), Ali Mosleh (UCLA), Kanoko Nishiono (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), Haruaki Ueda (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), Yoshikane Hamaguchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
Human Factors Considerations for Automating Microreactors
11:10–11:40AM EST
Elizabeth S. Fleming (Sandia), Megan Nyre-Yu (Sandia), David L. Luxat (Sandia)
Analysis of Simulator Data for Human Error Probability Using Coupling Method
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Mahendra Prasad (BARC), Vipul Garg (BARC), Gopika Vinod (BARC)
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