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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Reactors for Heat and Combined Heat and Power
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm C
Session Chair:
Aaron S. Epiney (Idaho N)
Session Organizers:
Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
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Alternate Chair:
Logan Williams (INL)
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Base-Load Nuclear Energy for Ammonia, Paper, Biofuels and Mining Facilities with Dispatchable Electricity Using High-Temperature Electrolysis
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Charles Forsberg (MIT), John Parsons (MIT), Hanna Won (MIT)
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Prismatic High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Model in Support of Integrated Energy Systems
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Logan Williams (INL), J. Michael Doster (NCSU), Daniel Mikkelson (INL)
Nuclear Plant Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) Adaptation for Integrated Energy Systems (IES)
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Emily V. Meilus (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Isabelle O. Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Techno-Economic Analysis of Process Heat Delivery Integration with Advanced Nuclear Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Ketan Ajay (Purdue Univ.), Zayed Ahmed (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Rabie Abu Saleem (Jordan Univ. Science and Technology), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue Univ.)
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