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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
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Aslak Stubsgaard
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
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Improving the Efficiency of Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Importance Sampling
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Joseph O'Leary (Univ. Maryland), Yunfei Zhao (Univ. Maryland)
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Towards a Deep-Learning based Heuristic for Optimal Variable Ordering in Binary Decision Diagrams to Support Fault Tree Analysis
10:20–10:40AM PDT
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
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Priyanka M. Pandit (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Markov Decision Processes for Intelligent, Risk-Informed Asset-Management Decision-Making
11:00–11:20AM PDT
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
11:20–11:40AM PDT
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)
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