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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.
This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Nuclear Installations Safety
Saturday, April 16, 2022|1:15–2:45PM CDT|Loyalty Room
Sponsored by ANS Nuclear Installations Safety Division
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Initiating Events Analysis to Support Preliminary Steps Toward a Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for the PULSTAR Research Reactor
Malek J. Abedrabouh (NCSU), Noah E. Davis (South Carolina State Univ.), Veronica Heyl (NCSU), Jaylen Jones (NC State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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An Investigation of MSPI Optimization to Improve NPP Safety and Efficiency
Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zhegang Ma (INL), Sai Zhang (INL), Hongbing Jiang (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Spatiotemporal Probabilistic Physics-of-Failure Analysis in Modeling Interconnections of Safety and Financial Performance of Nuclear Power Plants
Wen-Chi Cheng (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Seyed-A. Reihani (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ernest Kee (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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