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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The Frisch-Peierls memorandum: A seminal document of nuclear history
The Manhattan Project is usually considered to have been initiated with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in October 1939. However, a lesser-known document that was just as impactful on wartime nuclear history was the so-called Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Prepared by two refugee physicists at the University of Birmingham in Britain in early 1940, this manuscript was the first technical description of nuclear weapons and their military, strategic, and ethical implications to reach high-level government officials on either side of the Atlantic. The memorandum triggered the initiation of the British wartime nuclear program, which later merged with the Manhattan Engineer District.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Plant Safety, Regulations, and Licensing
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Mostafa Hamza (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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Multiple Radionuclides Source Term Estimation for Nuclear Accidents Based on Gaussian Puff Model and Ensemble Kalman Inversion
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Siho Jang (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Juryong Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Eung Soo Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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Iodine Suppression by Pool Reactor In-Vessel Storage
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Barry Mingst (TerraPower)
Engagement Activities with the United Kingdom Regulators for the Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
J. Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), P. Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), F. Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co.), C.A. Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), A. Levinsky (Westinghouse Electric Co.), J. Preston (Westinghouse Electric Co.), A. Schroeder (Westinghouse Electric Co.), N. Shulyak (Westinghouse Electric Co.), R.F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.), S.J. Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), M. Frignani (Ansaldo Nucleare), M. Tarantino (ENEA), G. Grasso (ENEA)
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Decommissioning Options at Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
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