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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
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)
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Mehdi Reisi Fard (NRC)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (University of Maryland)
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A Risk-Informed Assessment of Operational Options for Successfully Avoiding a Trip Setpoint
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Michael D. Muhlheim (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), Alex Huning (ORNL), Abhinav Saxena (GE Research)
Paper
Estimation of Nuclear Power Plant Train Unavailability Using Nonparametric Bootstrap
1:25–1:50PM EDT
John Merickel (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL)
Molten Salt Reactors Reliability Database: MOSARD
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL), Andrew Worrall (ORNL), George F. Flanagan (ORNL)
Characterization of Dynamic Behaviors in Licensee Event Report Data to Support PRA
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Asmaa S. Farag (NCSU), Hideki Sekiguchi (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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