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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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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