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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Luca Podofillini (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Gopika Vinod (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)
Session Producers:
John Greenwood
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Defining Dependency in HRA
10:10–10:40AM EST
Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
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Characterizing Human Performance: Detecting Targets at High False Alarm Rates.
10:40–11:10AM EST
Ann Speed (Sandia), Jason Wheeler (Sandia), John Russell (Sandia), Fred Oppel (Sandia), Danielle N. Sanchez (Sandia), Austin Silva (Sandia), Anna Chavez (Sandia)
Extracting Human Reliability Findings From Human Factors Studies in the Human Systems Simulation Laboratory
11:10–11:40AM EST
Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
Basis for Generic Approach to Human Failure Event Dependent Combination Identification
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Don MacLeod (Jensen Hughes), Huafei Liao (X-Energy)
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