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April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Paul Hunton (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Dan Goldberg (ANS)
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Health Monitoring of Digital I&C Systems Using Online Electronic Measurements
B. D. Shumaker (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), C. J. Kiger (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), D. E. McCarter (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
Paper
Applying Single Failure Criteria to Digital I&C Systems
Richard J. Stattel (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
New Licensing Process for Major Nuclear Digital Safety System Upgrades
Samir Darbali (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Fundamental Principles for the Design, Analysis and Regulation of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems used in Nuclear Power Plants
Steven A. Arndt (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
SymPLe: A Complexity-Aware Approach for Realizing Verifiable FPGA-Based Digital I&C for Safety Critical Applications
Richard Hite (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Christopher Deloglos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Athira Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aidan Collins (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Abhi Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Matt Gibson (Electric Power Research Institute)
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