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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
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)
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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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