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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 9, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Vinh Dang (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Enrique Melendez Asensio (Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Zach Berkow
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Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Electric Grid Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
12:40–1:10PM EST
Xiaoxu Diao (Ohio State Univ.), Yunfei Zhao (Ohio State Univ.), Carol Smidts (Ohio State Univ.), Hangtian Lei (Univ. of Idaho), Brian K. Johnson (Univ. of Idaho)
Paper
Impact of Different Time Discretization Methods on Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Dynamic Probabilistic Safety Assessments
1:10–1:40PM EST
Austin D. Lewis (Univ. of Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
Dynamic PSA Framework With Optimization Algorithm Applied to a Large LOCA Scenario
1:40–2:10PM EST
Jong Woo Park (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
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Sensitivity Analysis for Effectiveness of Flex Strategy Under Station Blackout Accident Scenario
2:10–2:40PM EST
Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Robby Christian (INL)
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