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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
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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