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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 9, 2021|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Backward Failure Propagation for Conceptual System Design Using ISFA
2:50–3:20PM EST
Ali Mansoor (Ohio State Univ.), Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (Ohio State Univ.)
Paper
A Bayesian and HRA-Aided Method for the Novel Reliability Analysis of Software
3:20–3:50PM EST
Tate Shorthill (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Han Bao (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL)
Development of Fuel-Specific Leak Frequencies Using a Hierarchical Probability Distribution Model With Bayesian Update
3:50–4:20PM EST
Dusty M. Brooks (Sandia), Brian D. Ehrhart (Sandia), Chris B. LaFleur (Sandia), Garrett W. Mulcahy (Purdue Univ.)
Development and Implementation of Risk-Monitor System for the Possibility of Performing Maintenance of Systems Important for Safety for Unit With VVER-1000 Reactor During Operation at Power
4:20–4:50PM EST
V. Demianiuk (NT-Engineering), M. Hlushchenko (NT-Engineering)
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