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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|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Uncertainty Quantification for Passive Safety System and Treatment of Model Uncertainty
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Gyun Seob Song (Chung-Ang Univ.), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Paper
ASPIC: Assessment of Parameter Influence on Value Clusters in an Uncertainty Analysis
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Tanja Eraerds (GRS), Martina Kloos (GRS), Jörg Peschke (GRS), Josef Scheuer (GRS), Jan Soedingrekso (GRS)
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Assessment of Uncertainty in Scenario Development for External Hazard Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Michelle Bensi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zhegang Ma (INL), Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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