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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Matthew Denman (Kairos Power)
Alternate Chair:
Aslak Stubsgaard
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Literature Review of Preliminary Initiating Events for a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Conceptual Design
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Megan Harkema (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Eric Thornsbury (EPRI)
Paper
On the Applicability of the General Transient Initiating Event Group for Advanced Reactors
3:35–3:55PM PDT
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
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Mostafa Hamza (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Management of Risks Associated with Application of Novel Materials in Novel Operating Environments in Novel Reactor Designs
4:15–4:35PM PDT
R. Youngblood (INL), S. Ferrara (INL)
Risk Metrics for Advanced Reactors
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Eric Thornsbury (EPRI), Stephen Hess (Jensen Hughes), Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes), Chloe Howard (Jensen Hughes)
Presented by Doug Hance (EPRI)
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