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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Reactor Physics and Analysis
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm C
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Session Organizers:
Kazuya Yamaji (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
Sebastian Schunert (Radiant Industries, Inc.)
Track Organizers:
Alternate Chair:
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU)
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KIT Numerical Simulation Tools for the Transient Analysis of Water-Cooled Small Modular Reactors
10:00–10:20AM PDT
V.H. Sanchez-Espinoza (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), U. Imke (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), K. Zhang (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), J. Duran-Gonzalez (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), A. Campos-Muñoz (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), G. Huaccho-Zavala (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
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Custom ORIGEN Libraries for Tritium Production in Discrete Burnable Absorbers
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Pavlo Ivanusa (PNNL), Clara Boutros (PNNL)
HTR-PROTEUS Nuclear Data Library Comparison Using MCNP6.3
10:40–11:00AM PDT
John D. Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Oliver Köberl (Axpo Power AG/Kernenergie)
Bias in 3D Power Distribution from Equilibrium Xenon Effects when Insufficient Neutron Histories per Cycle are used in Monte Carlo Simulation of CANDU6
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Yeseul Seo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Core Design Optimization of the Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Kyle Ramey (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Martin Jonson (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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