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August 24–27, 2026
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Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor became the fifth Department of Energy–authorized reactor to achieve criticality under the agency’s authorization process, it was announced earlier today.
Criticality was reached at 9:19 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday at the company’s Groves facility in Lockhart, Texas, according to the DOE.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Plant Safety, Regulations, and Licensing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Egemen Aras (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Session Organizers:
Toru Nakatsuka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Kukhee Lim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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Development of a High Wind Probabilistic Risk Assessment Model for Korean Nuclear Power Plants
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Seunghyun Jang (KAERI), Daegi Hahm (KAERI)
Paper
Is Soil-Structure-Interaction Analysis of Isolated Reactor Buildings Needed?
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Kaivalya M. Lal (Univ. Buffalo), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo), Benjamin D. Kosbab (Simpson Gumpertz & Heger), Shahriar Vahdani (Applied Geodynamics), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Choosing an Isolation System for a Nuclear Power Plant
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Ching-Ching Yu (TerraPower), Faizan Ul Haq Mir (Univ. Buffalo), Benjamin M. Carmichael (Southern Co.), Brandon M. Chisholm (Southern Co.), Andrew S. Whittaker (Univ. Buffalo)
Selection of Key Components and Risk Optimization to Improve Seismic Performance in Nuclear Power Plant
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Hyun Su Moon (KAERI), Seunghyun Jang (KAERI), Minkyu Kim (KAERI)
Root Cause Correlation Analysis of Software Failures via Orthogonal Defect Classification and Natural Language Processing
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Edward Chen (INL), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. Pittsburgh)
