Technical Program
PLENARY SESSIONS
- 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEST ESTIMATE ANALYSES AND MODELING FOR EFFECTIVE RISK INFORMED DECISION MAKING
- Plenary Lecturer: John A. Nakoski (OECD/NEA)
- 2. NEW AND ADVANCED REACTOR ANALYSIS AND BEPU
- Plenary Lecturer: Stephen M. Bajorek (USNRC, USA)
- 3. BEPU LICENSING CONSIDERATIONS FOR BWR AND SODIUM FAST SMR APPLICATIONS
- Plenary Lecturer: John Zino (GEH, USA)
- 4. APPLICATIONS OF BEPU APPROACHES IN INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
- Plenary Lecturer: Cesar Queral (UPM, Spain)
- 5. VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF THE CHINA VIRTUAL REACTOR FOR/WITH BEST ESTIMATION PLUS UNCERTAINTY
- Plenary Lecturer: Xiao He (USTB, China)
PANEL DISCUSSION SESSIONS
- A. AN OVERVIEW OF ASME VVUQ STANDARD COMMITTEES AND OECD NEA ACTIVITIES
- Moderator: Milorad Dzodzo (Westinghouse)
- B. OVERVIEW OF THE OECD-NEA EXPERT GROUP ON REACTOR SYSTEMS MULIT-PHYSICS (EGMUP)
- Moderator: Timothy Valentine (ORNL)
- C. PRESERVATION OF THE MOST CRITICAL ASSET FOR BEPU, EXPERIMENTAL DATA: INDUSTRY EFFORTS IN PRESERVING AND MANAGING LEGACY EXPERIMENTAL DATA
- Moderator: Cesare Frepoli (FPoliSolutions)
- Moderator: Martina Adorni (NEA)
- D. SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND LICENSING IN ITALY: COMPETENCES, CAPABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS
- Moderator: Marco Cherubini (NINE)
- E. BEPU USING OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION
- Moderator: Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
- F. STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF CODES AND EXPERIMENTATION IN NUCLEAR THERMAL-HYDRAULICS FOLLOWING FONESYS AND SILENCE NETWORKS
- Moderator: Dominique Bestion (CEA)
- G. WHY BEPU IS NOT WIDESPREAD?
- Moderator: Francesco D’Auria (UNIPI)
- H. UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR MULTI-PHYSICS APPLICATIONS
- Moderator: Kaiyue Zeng (NINE)
- Moderator: Tomasz Kozlowski (UIUC)
- I. UNLEASHING THE POWER OF BEPU: A GLOBAL DIALOGUE ON BROADENING INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
- Moderator: Jinzhao Zhang (TRACTEBEL)
- Moderator: Lucia Sargentini (CEA)
CONFERENCE SESSIONS & KEYNOTES
TRACK-1: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS AND LICENSING
- A. TECHNICAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS OF BEPU
- A1. Licensing and Regulatory Requirements for BEPU Keynote: Current and Anticipated Challenges and Opportunities for BEPU Licensing Applications, R. Martin (USNRC, USA)
- A2. V&V and BEPU Keynote: Modern V&V for BEPU in the Digital Age, C. Frepoli (FPoliSolutions, USA)
- A3. Scaling Issue and BEPU
- B. BEPU IN SAFETY ANALYSIS AND LICENSING FRAMEWORK
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Keynote: BEPU and licensing: The Role of I&C Modeling, F. D’Auria (UNIPI, Italy)
- B1. Light Water Reactor (PWR, WWER and BWR)
- B2. Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis: beyond BEPU
- C. OTHER BEPU APPLICATION RESULTS
- C1. BEPU Applications for Single Physics - Thermal-hydraulics
- C2. BEPU Applications for Single Physics - Reactor Physics/Fuel Performance
- C5. BEPU Methods and Results for GEN-IV & Other New Designs
TRACK-2: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- D. BEPU METHODOLOGY R&D
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Keynote: What is Needed for an Evidence-Based Background of the New Generation of Modeling and Tools, E. Ivanov (IRNS, France)
- D1. Statistical Methods for Uncertainty Analysis
- D2. Bayesian Methods for Uncertainty Analysis
- D3. Machine Learning Methods for Uncertainty Analysis
- D4. Hybrid Methods for Uncertainty Analysis
- D5. Sensitivity Methods as supporting tools for Uncertainty Analysis
- E. BEPU FOR MULTIPHYSICS (MP) & MULTISCALE (MS) APPLICATIONS
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Keynote: Uncertainty Estimation in Multi-Physics/Multi-Scale/Multi-Fidelity Simulations, K. Ivanov (NCSU, USA)
- E1. Thermal-Hydraulics (including I&C simulators) and Reactor Physics
- E2. Reactor Physics and Fuel Performance
- E3. Thermal-Hydraulics, Reactor Physics and Fuel Performance
- E4. Role of CFD and of Structural Mechanics for MP&MS BEPU
- E6. Best-Estimate and Uncertainty Evaluation for Design Extension Condition (DEC) including Severe Accidents