• 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)

• 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: Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE)
  
  
• 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: Francesco D’Auria (UNIPI)
  
  
• G. WHY BEPU IS NOT WIDESPREAD?
  • Moderator: Francesco D’Auria (UNIPI)
  
  
• H. UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR MULTI-PHYSICS APPLICATIONS
  • Moderator: Tomasz Kozlowski (UIUC)
  • Moderator: Kaiyue Zeng (NINE)
  
  
• I. UNLEASHING THE POWER OF BEPU: A GLOBAL DIALOGUE ON BROADENING INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
  • Moderator: Jinzhao Zhang (TRACTEBEL)
  • Moderator: Lucia Sargentini (CEA)

TRACK-1: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS AND LICENSING

• A. ​TECHNICAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS OF BEPU
  • A1. Licensing and Regulatory Requirements for BEPU
  • A2. V&V and BEPU
  • A3. Scaling Issue and BEPU
  • A4. Experimental Measurement Uncertainties and BEPU
  • A5. Overall Analytical framework for realistic simulations for licensing and plant operations
  
  
• B. BEPU IN SAFETY ANALYSIS AND LICENSING FRAMEWORK
  • B1. Light Water Reactor (PWR, WWER and BWR)
  • B2. ​​Heavy Water Reactors (CANDU, PHWR)
  • B3. ​Small Modular Reactors and Micro-Reactors
  • B4. Sensitivity Methods as supporting tools for BEPU Analysis
  • B5. Full BEPU Approach for SAR (including Structural Mechanics, Radiological Consequence Analysis, etc…)
    
  
  
• C. ​​​OTHER BEPU APPLICATION RESULTS
  
  • C1. BEPU Applications for Single Physics - Thermal-hydraulics
  • C2. BEPU Applications for Single Physics - Reactor Physics
  • C3. BEPU Applications for Single Physics - Fuel Performance
  • C4. BEPU Methods and Results for Passive System Applications
  • C5. BEPU Methods and Results for GEN-IV & Other New Designs
  • C6. BEPU Methods and Results for Design Extension Conditions
  • C7. BEPU Methods and Results for Research Reactor
  • C8. BEPU Methods and Results for Simulator Applications
  
  

TRACK-2: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

• D. ​BEPU METHODOLOGY R&D
  • 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
  • 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
  • E5. BEPU Challenges for MP&MS Applications including Numerical Issues
  • E6. Best-Estimate and Uncertainty Evaluation for Design Extension Condition (DEC) including Severe Accidents
  
  
• F. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FINDINGS FOR DEVELOPING FUTURE BEPU METHODOLOGIES
  • F1. Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis: beyond BEPU
  • F2. International Program Findings and Recommendations for BEPU
  • F3. BEPU Requirements from Multi-physics and Multi-scale Simulations
  • F4. Demonstration of Practical Elimination of Accident Consequences
  • F5. Reactor Safety Margins Assessment for External Hazards
  • F6. Methods for Uncertainty Quantification in Non-Nuclear Disciplines