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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
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Monroe
Session Chair:
Kaushik Banerjee
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey
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Adaptation of Pebble-bed Micro-reactors to Continuous Recycle Fuel Cycles
1:00–1:25PM EST
Venkata Vallabhaneni (Young Members Group), Donald Doyle (University of Tennesee - Knoxville), Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook University), Nicholas R. Brown (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
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The Role of Social Sciences in a Successful Siting Process
1:25–1:50PM EST
Dave Hardy (Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited), Danya Braun (Avaanz Limited)
Collaborative Siting Process: Path for the Successful Siting of a Federal Consolidated Storage Facility
1:50–2:15PM EST
Marla Morales (US Department of Energy)
New Direction for the U.S. Repository Program
2:15–2:40PM EST
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