Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)

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Quantification of In-Containment Mechanistic Source Term for Advanced Light Water Reactor

Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

An Assessment of the Applicability and Usability of Light Water Reactor Source Term Software for Non-Light Water Reactor Designers

Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power), Peiwen T. Whysall (Kairos Power), Jordan E. Hagaman (Kairos Power)

The Development of Simplified Radionuclide Transport Code (SRT) Version 2.1

Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)

Consequence Uncertainty Quantification in LMP Applications

Matthew Humberstone (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Hanh Phan (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Steven Unwin (PNNL), Steve Short (PNNL), Garill Coles (PNNL)

Oxidation Model of the Accident Tolerant Fuel Implemented in NuScale Reactor Using MELCOR Code

Mohammad Amer Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Grace Ejnik (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

Digital Risk Analysis in Nuclear Engineering Projects: Designing for Safety, Performance, Reliability, and Security

Shannon L. Eggers (INL), Robert W. Youngblood (INL)

Integration of NIS (Nuclear Instrumentation Systems) with FPGA based RPS controls as a Seamless Safety Control System and Hardware Platform

Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Lewis Wetzel (Paragon Energy Solutions)

Consequence-Based Security for a Low Enriched UO2 Fueled Microreactor

Jérémy Mangin (Ecole polytechnique), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), Neil Todreas (MIT)

Implementing Multiple Control Paths in the Dual Error Propagation Graph for Stochastic Failure Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems

Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Laying the Foundations for the Development of a Probabilistic Model Checking Method to Quantify Common Cause Failure Parameters in Digital Instrumentation and Control

Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

The Co-Evolution of the GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Plant Design

Nathan DeKett (GE - Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Dennis Henneke (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy)

Application of the GIF Safety Design Criteria and Safety Design Guidelines on Decay Heat Removal System to Next Generation Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor in Japan

Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Satoshi Futagami (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koichi Higurashi (Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc.)

Application of the RMPS+ Method to the BWRX-300 Isolation Condenser System: An Introduction

Tyra Gordon (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Nathan DeKett (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Dennis Henneke (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy), Jonathan Li (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)

Development and Demonstration of a Prototype Molten Salt Sampling System

Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Paul Marotta (Vanderbilt Univ.), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)

Application of the GIF Safety Design Criteria and Safety Design Guidelines on Reactor Shutdown System to Next Generation Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor in Japan

Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Satoshi Futagami (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Akihiro Shibata (Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc.)

Leveraging Inverse Uncertainty Quantification to Enhance the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plant Construction Duration Estimation

Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Regulatory Treatment of Low Frequency External Events under a Risk-Informed Performance-Based Licensing Pathway: Enhanced SPRA-based Margins Assessment

Ben Chen (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)

Primary Site Selection for Air Freight Transport of Department of Defense Microreactors

Thomas M. O'Connell (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Protecting Microreactors from Extreme External Threats

Amaury Le Person (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Andrew Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)

Preliminary Study of Iodine Gas Removal in Sodium Pools

Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL), Yasushi Okano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Akihiro Uchibori (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tyler Starkus (ANL), Matthew Bucknor (ANL)

Thermochemical Modeling of Radionuclide Vapor-Liquid Equilibria in Sodium Pools for SFR Mechanistic Source Term Analysis

Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Sara Thomas (ANL), Tyler Starkus (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)

A Mass Transfer Model for Source Term Release from A Spilled Molten Salt Pool Accounting for Both Gas and Liquid Side Resistances

Quan Zhou (Kairos Power), Kyoung Min Kang (Kairos Power), Jake McMurray (Kairos Power), Matthew Denman (Kairos Power), Haihua Zhao (Kairos Power)

Thermodynamic Analysis of the Relationship between Peak Fuel Enthalpy and Fuel Behavior for Fast Reactor Design

Yan Peng (China Institute of Atomic Energy)

Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Approaches to Safety Analysis and Classification for Microreactors

Alan Smith (Oklo Inc.), Patrick Everett (Oklo Inc.), Kellen McCarroll (Oklo Inc.), Alex Renner (Oklo Inc.)

Application of a Qualitative Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Approach for the MARVEL Microreactor at the Idaho National Laboratory

Doug Gerstner (INL), Jason Andrus (INL), Amanda Foley (INL), Troy Reiss (INL)

Reducing the Maintenance Cost of Advanced Nuclear Reactors under Risk Constraints through Condition Monitoring, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, and Maintenance Optimization

Yunfei Zhao (Univ. Maryland)

Addressing Uncertainties Across All Design Stages of Advanced Reactors Development

Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Risk Informed Material Categorization

Brian Kloiber (Oklo Inc.)

Literature Review of Preliminary Initiating Events for a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Conceptual Design

Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Eric Thornsbury (EPRI)

On the Applicability of the General Transient Initiating Event Group for Advanced Reactors

Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Huafei Liao (X-energy), Mark Cursey (Jensen Hughes), Karl Fleming (Technology Insights), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

The State of Art of the Human Failure Events Dependency Analysis Methods

Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Management of Risks Associated with Application of Novel Materials in Novel Operating Environments in Novel Reactor Designs

R. Youngblood (INL), S. Ferrara (INL)

Risk Metrics for Advanced Reactors

Eric Thornsbury (EPRI), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes), Chloe Howard (Jensen Hughes)

Integrating PRA into the Conceptual and Preliminary Design Phases of an Advanced Reactor Project

Thomas Morgan (Enercon Services), Dennis Henneke (GE Hitachi), Jonathan Li (GE Hitachi), Raymond Dremel (GE Hitachi)

Some Special Topics for the SMR Emergency Planning

Dan Serbanescu (Group of Risk Analyses GLERUNR), Petre Min (Group of Risk Analyses GLERUNR)

Aalo Atomics' High Level Licensing Strategy

Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Amir Afzali (Aalo Atomics), Yasir Arafat (Aalo Atomics), Matt Loszak (Aalo Atomics), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Licensing Advanced Reactor Designs: Leveraging Operating History to Develop Creative Solutions in Addressing Future Focus Areas

Qin Pan (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Sunil D. Weerakkody (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

Insights from Multi-Unit Level 1, 2 and 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results for Light-Water Reactor Designs - What Can Be Extrapolated to Advanced Reactor Designs?

Susan E. Cooper (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Erick Ball (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Trey Hathaway (US Nuclear Regulatory Commision), Keith Compton (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Selim Sancaktar (Retired), Alan Kuritzky (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Latonia Enos-Sylla (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

Improving the Efficiency of Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Importance Sampling

Joseph O'Leary (Univ. Maryland), Yunfei Zhao (Univ. Maryland)

Towards a Deep-Learning based Heuristic for Optimal Variable Ordering in Binary Decision Diagrams to Support Fault Tree Analysis

Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Asmaa A. Farag (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Quantifying Safety System Unavailability Margins via Inverse Estimation of Event Sequence Frequencies

Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Priyanka M. Pandit (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Markov Decision Processes for Intelligent, Risk-Informed Asset-Management Decision-Making

David Grabaskas (ANL), Yunfei Zhao (Ohio State), Carol Smidts (Ohio State), Vera Moiseytseva (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Pascal Brocheny (Framatome)

Data Updating Model Development with Bayesian Inference for Data Analysis for Probabilistic Risk Assessment Application

Joomyung Lee (NCSU), Rawan Mustafa (NCSU), Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Olivier Retourne (X-energy), Huafei Liao (X-energy), Glen Lawson (X-energy), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Comparison of Point Kinetics and Spatial Kinetics Models for the Generic Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (gFHR)

Jonathan L. Barthle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

LES at Low Richardson Number to investigate Thermal Stratification in SFRs Upper Plenums

Theodore Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), L.B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Modeling Improvements for the Transition to Natural Circulation

Rachel A. Thomas (ANL), Daniel J. O'Grady (ANL), Thomas H. Fanning (ANL), Acacia J. Brunett (ANL)

Automated Multiphysics Evaluation Model Assessment and Determination of Thermal-Hydraulic Safety Margins

Clyde Huibregtse (Oklo), Amrit Patel (Oklo), Patrick Everett (Oklo)

Mechanical Aerosol Generation from Two-Phase Flow Pipe Breaks for Low Pressure FHR

Kyoung M. Kang (Kairos Power), Quan Zhou (Kairos Power), Matthew Denman (Kairos Power), Timothy Drzewiecki (Kairos Power)

An Examination of Sodium Aerosol Behavior Based on Available Experimental Data

Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)

Modeling Radionuclide Inventories in MSR Off-Gas Systems with Radiochemical Transport Analysis

Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Samuel Walker (INL), Mauricio Tano (INL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)

Implementation of the Sourdough Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Strategy in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design

C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)

Advancements in Depletion Modeling for Molten Salt Reactors Using OpenMC: A Case Study with the MSRE

Lorenzo Chierici (Copenhagen Atomics), Erik Bergbäck Knudsen (Copenhagen Atomics)

Advancing SAPHIRE: Transitioning from Legacy to State-of-Art Excellence

Stephen T. Wood (INL), Jordan T. Boyce (INL), Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Enhancing the SAPHIRE Solve Engine: Initial Progress and Efforts

Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Stephen T. Wood (INL), Jordan T. Boyce (INL), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Introducing OpenPRA's Quantification Engine: Exploring Capabilities, Recognizing Limitations, and Charting the Path to Enhancement

Egemen M. Aras (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Hasibul H. Rasheeq (NCSU), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Stephen T. Wood (INL), Jordan T. Boyce (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

OpenMHA: Open-Source Code for Creating Multi-Hazards Logic and Area PRA Models Considering Aging of SSCs

Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)

Evaluating PRA Tools for Accurate and Efficient Quantifications: A Follow-Up Benchmarking Study Including FTREX

Asmaa Farag (NCSU), S. Ted Wood (INL), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Egemen M. Aras (INL), Jordan T. Boyce (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)