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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Plant Safety, Regulations, and Licensing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Egemen Aras (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Session Organizers:
Toru Nakatsuka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Kukhee Lim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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Development of a High Wind Probabilistic Risk Assessment Model for Korean Nuclear Power Plants
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Seunghyun Jang (KAERI), Daegi Hahm (KAERI)
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Is Soil-Structure-Interaction Analysis of Isolated Reactor Buildings Needed?
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Kaivalya M. Lal (Univ. Buffalo), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo), Benjamin D. Kosbab (Simpson Gumpertz & Heger), Shahriar Vahdani (Applied Geodynamics), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Choosing an Isolation System for a Nuclear Power Plant
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Ching-Ching Yu (TerraPower), Faizan Ul Haq Mir (Univ. Buffalo), Benjamin M. Carmichael (Southern Co.), Brandon M. Chisholm (Southern Co.), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)
Selection of Key Components and Risk Optimization to Improve Seismic Performance in Nuclear Power Plant
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Hyun Su Moon (KAERI), Seunghyun Jang (KAERI), Minkyu Kim (KAERI)
Root Cause Correlation Analysis of Software Failures via Orthogonal Defect Classification and Natural Language Processing
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Edward Chen (INL), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. Pittsburgh)
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