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Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
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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