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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Matthew D. Bucknor
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Digital Risk Analysis in Nuclear Engineering Projects: Designing for Safety, Performance, Reliability, and Security
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Shannon L. Eggers (INL), Robert W. Youngblood (INL)
Paper
Integration of NIS (Nuclear Instrumentation Systems) with FPGA based RPS controls as a Seamless Safety Control System and Hardware Platform
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Lewis Wetzel (Paragon Energy Solutions)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Consequence-Based Security for a Low Enriched UO2 Fueled Microreactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Jérémy Mangin (Ecole polytechnique), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), Neil Todreas (MIT)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Slides
Implementing Multiple Control Paths in the Dual Error Propagation Graph for Stochastic Failure Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
2:00–2:20PM PDT
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
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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