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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Daisuke Taniguchi, Yuki Ishiwatari, Naoki Hirokawa, Bumpei Fujioka (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 494-502
Spent Fuel Storage Pool (SFP) Probabilistic Safety Assessment/Analyses (PSA) is one of the remarkable areas after the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Hitachi-GE developed a SFP PSA model for UK ABWR (United Kingdom Advanced Boiling Water Reactor) GDA (Generic Design Assessment) which considered the following characteristics.
? Adverse effects from reactor accident progression
? Structural integrity in case of cask drop onto SFP
? Hydrogen management in the Level 2 PSA modeling
? Seismic
? Internal Fire and Internal Flooding
