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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 HFICD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|8:00–9:45AM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Nicholas P. Luciano
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Fiber Optic Temperature Sensor Performance in Thin Metallic Capillary Tubing
8:00–8:20AM EST
Oscar Felegy (Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University), Scout Bucks (Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University), Chris T. Balbier (Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University), Saya Lee (Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University)
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Gamma Spectrometry of Secondary Coolant Salt to Measure Mass Flow Rate and Relative Reactor Power
8:20–8:40AM EST
Nicholas P. Luciano (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Cole A. Gentry (The University of Texas at Austin), Alexandru S. Aghinitei (The University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
Spatiotemporal Full-Field Reconstruction through Virtual Sensing for Reactor System Monitoring
8:40–9:00AM EST
NRC Research to Enable Performance-based Safety Evaluation of Digital Systems
9:00–9:20AM EST
Sushil K. Birla (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Derek S. Halverson (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Norbert Carte (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Sergiu Basturescu (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Mauricio Gutierrez (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Non-Invasive Digitization of Nuclear Power Plants
9:20–9:40AM EST
Harry Sim (Cypress Envirosystems), Hank Strahley (Southern Nuclear)
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