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American Nuclear Society condemns attack on UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) issued the following statement:
"The American Nuclear Society condemns today's drone attack on the outer perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates. The IAEA has confirmed that radiation levels are normal and no injuries have been reported. The safety systems performed as designed, a demonstration of the layered protections built into robust modern nuclear facilities. Incidents like this reinforce the importance of the IAEA's calls for maximum military restraint around nuclear power reactors, and of full adherence by all combatants to the IAEA's seven pillars for nuclear safety and security during armed conflict."
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)
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