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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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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
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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