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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC staff proposes ROP, security inspection overhauls
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is recommending proposed changes for the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that could reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
In addition to the proposed ROP changes, NRC staff published recommendations for the baseline security program that would reduce the number of direct inspection hours necessary for this program by about 50 percent compared to current levels. This includes the Force-on-Force (FOF) inspection program.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Aaron S. Epiney
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew J. Clark
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Probabilistic Risk Assessment Collaboration through the Japan-U.S. Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group
Curtis L. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Masato Nakajima (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Naoto Kihara (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Steven Prescott (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Transition to Extreme Decision Making - Similarities between the Response to the Corona Virus and Severe Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants.
George L. Vayssier (NSC Netherlands)
Performance Analysis of Ensemble Learning in Bearing Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machines
Xianping Zhong (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (University of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (University of Pittsburgh)
Common-Cause Component Group Modeling Issues in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Zhegang Ma (INL), Robert Buell (INL), James Knudsen (INL), Sai Zhang (INL)
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