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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications|Cosponsored by NPIC&HMIT
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Katrina Groth (University of Maryland)
Alternate Chair:
Sai Zhang (INL)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
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Managing Risk Through the Planning Process -- Experiences from the Petroleum Industry
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Sizarta Sarshar (Institute for Energy Technology), Bjørn Axel Gran (Institute for Energy Technology)
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Data Analytics for Reliability and Integrity Management
1:25–1:50PM EDT
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Otani (INL), T. Anselmi (INL), S. Lawrence (INL), C. Smith (INL), E. Ryan (INL)
Reliability-Informed Cost Optimization of the Integrated Energy Systems
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), Samantha Sabatino (ORNL)
Scalability of Continuous-Time Markov Chain Model Applied to Risk Calculations of Circulating Water System Motor-Driven Pump Failures
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Andrei Gribok (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
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