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ANS Student Conference 2025
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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Nathan Siu (Retired_NRC)
Alternate Chair:
Camille Levine (Univ MD, College Park)
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Back to Basics: First Principles of HRA
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Torrey Mortenson (INL), Vincent Philip Paglioni (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ronald Boring (INL)
Paper
Base Standardized Plant Analysis Risk (SPAR) Model Human Failure Event Application of Integrated Human Event Analysis System for Event and Condition Assessment (IDHEAS-ECA)
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Christopher Hunter (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Qin Pan (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Y. James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Jing Xing (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Kevin Coyne (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
A Framework for Time-Based Human Reliability Evaluation Method in Dynamic PSA
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Wooseok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Estimating the Contributions to Human Error Probability from the Convolution of the Distribution of Time Available and Time Required
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Brett A. Jefferson (PNNL), Garill Coles (PNNL), Jessica Baweja (PNNL), Yung Hsien James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Rajiv Prasad (PNNL)
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