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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301B
Session Chair:
Ronald L. Boring
Alternate Chair:
Jonghyun Kim
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Evaluation of the Reliability of the Emergency Response Organizations of Nuclear Power Plants Based on the Resilience Concept
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Jaehyun Kim (Chosun Univ.), Jonghyun Kim (Chosun Univ.)
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An Experimental Investigation of Students' Learning Effects when Using a Simplified Nuclear Simulator
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Taewon Yang (Chosun Univ.), Jooyoung Park (INL), Ronald Boring (INL), Jonghyun Kim (Chosun Univ.)
Development of Automatic Human System Performance Evaluation System
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Kenji Mashio (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
An Empirical Study on the Impact to Human Performance Caused by Fundamental Surprise According to the Real-Sense of Earthquake in Nuclear Power Plants
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Sa Kil Kim (KAERI), In Seok Oh (KAERI), Yong Hee Lee (KAERI), Jang Yeol Kim (KAERI)
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