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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Panel and Technical Session|Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability
Friday, April 14, 2023|3:10–4:30PM EDT|Student Union 362C
Session Chair:
Evan Williams (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Dalton Lonker (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Nuclear Installation Safety and Operations & Power Divisions.
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Fault Tolerance In The Autonomous Control System For The MIT Graphite Exponential Pile
3:10–3:30PM EDT
Andrea M. Molina-Dejesus (MIT)
Paper
Event Sequence Analysis to Support a Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for the PULSTAR Research Reactor
3:30–3:50PM EDT
May Wells (NCSU), Maddie Barber (NCSU), Alex Chaisson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Quantification Method for Human Error Probability with Dependent Time Model
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Gyun Seob Song (Chung-Ang University), Man C. Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Molten Salt Reactor Pump Failure Accident Analysis using the NERTHUS Dynamic Model
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Nicholas J. Dunkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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