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The Meta-Vistra deal: A closer look
With last Friday's announcement regarding its vision for nuclear energy, Meta has entered into 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for more than 2,600 MW of electricity from a combination of three Vistra-owned nuclear plants to support the tech behemoth's planned operations in the PJM region.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Thanh Hua (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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A Performance and Scalability Analysis of the Hydrodynamic Molten Salt Lubricated Bearings
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Yuqi Liu (Univ. New Mexico), Shuai Che (Univ. Michigan), Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Bao Nguyen (Univ. New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
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System-Level Tritium Transport Modeling Capability in SAM
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Travis Mui (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Quan Zhou (Kairos Power), Thanh Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)
Effect of Two-Phase Throttling on Performance of a Large Scale Water-Based RCCS
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Qiuping Lv (ANL), Matthew Jasica (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Mitch Farmer (ANL)
Preliminary Scaling Analysis for Containment Vessel of Integral Effect Test Facility for i-SMR
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Jin-Hwa Yang (KAERI), Byoung-Uhn Bae (KAERI), Hwang Bae (KAERI), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
Interface Capturing Simulations and Analysis of Boiling Phenomenon in Complex Geometries
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Christopher B. Landis (NCSU), Anna Iskhakova (NCSU), Yoshiyuki Kondo (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Koichi Tanimoto (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
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