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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD|Cosponsored by RPSD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Sonoran 1
Session Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Alternate Chair:
Sunil Chirayath (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Aaron S. Epiney
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Achieving a Seismic Risk Target for a Seismically Isolated Advanced Reactor
10:00–10:20AM MST
Ching-Ching Yu (Univ. Buffalo), Benjamin M. Carmichael (Southern Co.), Jason P. Redd (Southern Co.), Brandon M. Chisholm (Southern Co.), Mark W. Peres (Peres Engineering), Brian I. Song (Kairos Power), Matthew Denman (Kairos Power), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)
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Summary of 2020 Common-Cause Failure Parameter Update for U.S. Commercial Operating Nuclear Power Plants
10:20–10:40AM MST
Zhegang Ma (INL)
Comparison of Safety and Security Risk of a Research Reactor with Accident Probability Analysis
10:40–11:00AM MST
Joeun Lee (Purdue), Shraddha Rane (Purdue), Theodore Thomas (Purdue), Jason T. Harris (Purdue)
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