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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
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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|Sponsored by NISD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Aaron S. Epiney
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew J. Clark
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Probabilistic Risk Assessment Collaboration through the Japan-U.S. Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group
Curtis L. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Masato Nakajima (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Naoto Kihara (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), Steven Prescott (Idaho National Laboratory)
Paper
Transition to Extreme Decision Making - Similarities between the Response to the Corona Virus and Severe Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants.
George L. Vayssier (NSC Netherlands)
Performance Analysis of Ensemble Learning in Bearing Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machines
Xianping Zhong (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh), Daniel G. Cole (University of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (University of Pittsburgh)
Common-Cause Component Group Modeling Issues in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Zhegang Ma (INL), Robert Buell (INL), James Knudsen (INL), Sai Zhang (INL)
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