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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Risk-informed, performance-based design in INL’s MARVEL reactor
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speaker: Doug Gerstner, a nuclear safety engineer at Idaho National Laboratory, who presented “Application of a Qualitative RIPB Approach for the MARVEL Microreactor at INL.”
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Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, November 10, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Kaushik Banerjee
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey
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Conceptual Design for a Federal Consolidated Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel
3:15–3:40PM EST
Erica Bickford (U.S. Department of Energy), John Shultz (U.S. Department of Energy)
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U.S. Department of Energy Preparations to Transport a Rail-Sized Research Cask of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel
3:40–4:05PM EST
Erica Bickford (U.S. Department of Energy), Sara Hogan (U.S. Department of Energy), Kevin Connolly (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Miriam Juckett (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
DOE Large-Scale Transportation System of SNF in the United States
4:05–4:30PM EST
Sara Hogan (US Department of Energy), Erica Bickford (U.S. Department of Energy), Steven J. Maheras (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Miriam Juckett (Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Lab - Energy & Environment Directorate), Kevin J. Connolly (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Public and Industry Feedback on a Potential Department of Energy Package Performance Project
4:30–4:55PM EST
Miriam Juckett (Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Lab - Energy & Environment Directorate), Laura Hay (Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Lab - Energy & Environment Directorate), Sara Hogan (U.S. Department of Energy), Erica Bickford (U.S. Department of Energy)
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