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Beyond conventional boundaries: Innovative construction technologies pave the way for advanced reactor deployment
In a bid to tackle the primary obstacle in nuclear deployment—construction costs—those in industry and government are moving away from traditional methods and embracing innovative construction technologies.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Quantification of In-Containment Mechanistic Source Term for Advanced Light Water Reactor
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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An Assessment of the Applicability and Usability of Light Water Reactor Source Term Software for Non-Light Water Reactor Designers
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power), Peiwen T. Whysall (Kairos Power), Jordan E. Hagaman (Kairos Power)
The Development of Simplified Radionuclide Transport Code (SRT) Version 2.1
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)
Consequence Uncertainty Quantification in LMP Applications
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Matthew Humberstone (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Hanh Phan (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Steven Unwin (PNNL), Steve Short (PNNL), Garill Coles (PNNL)
Presented by Jeffery Wood (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Oxidation Model of the Accident Tolerant Fuel Implemented in NuScale Reactor Using MELCOR Code
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Mohammad Amer Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Grace Ejnik (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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