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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Markus Porthin (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Sung-Min Shin (KAERI)
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (ANS)
This session will also include a panel discussion on the research and development needs concerning reliability modeling of digital I&C. Panelists: Hongbin Zhang (INL) Sung-Min Shin (KAERI) Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Paolo Picca (Office For Nuclear Regulation)
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Integrated Risk Assessment of Digital I&C Safety Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
Hongbin Zhang (INL), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Edward Quinn (Technology Resources)
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WGRISK DIGMAP: Comparison of PSA Modeling Approaches for Digital I&C
Markus Porthin (Paul Scherrer Institut), Sung-Min Shin (KAERI), Milan Jaros (ÚJV Řež), Jiri Sedlak (ÚJV Řež), Paolo Picca (Office for Nuclear Regulation), Richard Quatrain (EDF), Jeanne Demgné (EDF), Hans Brinkman (NRG), Venkat Natarajan (NRG), Tero Tyrväinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Christian Müller (Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Ewgenij Piljugin (Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
Risk Comparison Among Design Options of RPS with Diverse PLC and FPGA Systems
Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kwang-Seop Son (KAERI), Seung Hwan Seong (KAERI)
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