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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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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.
Technical Session
Thursday, November 11, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes)
Alternate Chair:
James Chang (NRC)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Benchmarking IDHEAS-ECA Using Data From the Presidential Election Recounts
12:40–1:10PM EST
Yung Hsien James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
A Framework to Extrapolate and Evaluate Human Reliability Causal Models From Event Report Narratives
1:10–1:40PM EST
Andres Ruiz-Tagle (Univ. of Maryland), Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Enrique Lopez-Droguett (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
Feasibility of the TACOM Measure as a Yardstick to Identify the Level of Task Complexities Under a Procedure Guided Task Environment
1:40–2:10PM EST
Jinkyun Park (KAERI), Inseok Jang (KAERI), Yochan Kim (KAERI)
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A Taxonomy and Meta-Analysis Template for Combining Disparate Data to Understand the Effect of Digital Environments on Human Reliability
2:10–2:40PM EST
Mary Presley (EPRI), Ronald Boring (INL), Thomas Ulrich (INL), Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Marialaura Delvecchio (Institute for Energy Technology), Salvatore Massaiu (Institute for Energy Technology), Andreas Bye (Institute for Energy Technology), Jinkyun Park (KAERI), Yochan Kim (KAERI), Jeffrey A. Julius (Jensen Hughes)
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