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August 24–27, 2026
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Nuclear Power Plants
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm C
Session Chair:
Jacopo Buongiorno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alternate Chair:
Ling Zou (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
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Mechanical Design Features and Construction Cost of Horizontal Compact HTGR
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Enrique Velez-Lopez (Boston Atomics), W. Robb Stewart (Boston Atomics), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Core Modeling of Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor -- Refueling Strategy and Thermo-Mechanical Performance
1:20–1:40PM PDT
L. Mazzocco (MIT), L. Cohen (MIT), J. Kang (Univ. Michigan), W.R. Stewart (Boston Atomics), E. Velez-Lopez (Boston Atomics), K. Shirvan (MIT), V. Seker (Univ. Michigan)
Primary System Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Methodology for the HC-HTGR
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Brent Hollrah (TAMU), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Development of the Dynamics Model of a Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas Reactor (HC-HTGR) in Modelica
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan), Farhana Farha (Univ. Michigan), Samuel Piper (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Seismic Engineering of a Horizontal, Compact High Temperature Gas Reactor
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Sai Sharath Parsi (Univ. Buffalo), Kaivalya M. Lal (Univ. Buffalo), Enrique Velez (Boston Atomics), W. Robb Stewart (Boston Atomics), Mettupalayam V. Sivaselvan (Univ. Buffalo), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)
