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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Alternate Chair:
Xiaoxu Diao (OSU)
Session Producer:
Sam Brewer
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How to Assess a PSA Involving Passive Systems With a Number of CATHARE Code Runs Within an Industrial Context
10:10–10:40AM EST
Yann Morvan (EDF), Elisabeth Duvillard (EDF)
Paper
Development and Application of Risk Analysis Toolkit for Plant Resource Optimization
10:40–11:10AM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), D. P. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.)
Managing Unexpected Failures of Nuclear Power Plants by Incorporating Organizational Factors Into Probabilistic Risk Assessment
11:10–11:40AM EST
Andrea Roy (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ernie Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Automatic Generation of Event Trees and Fault Trees: A Model-Based Approach
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), A. Alfonsi (INL), T. Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.)
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