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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Cynthia Adkins (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Accelerated Fuel Concept Screening via Neutronics and Thermal Hydraulics Modeling
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Jacob P. Gorton (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL), Nathan A. Capps (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL)
Paper
Effect of Threshold Parameter for Fuel Fragment Mobility on Fuel Relocation Model in FRAPTRAN
10:20–10:40AM PDT
JangSoo Oh (KAERI), YongSik Yang (KAERI), Ju Yeop Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
Historical, Contemporary, and Future Perspectives on Fuel Qualification
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Mitch Mika (Univ. Florida), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
GIFT-1.0, Advanced Fuel Performance Code for LWR: Development and Multi-Physics Code Coupling Status
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Mechanistic Fuel Performance Modeling of Uranium Nitride
11:20–11:40AM PDT
Jason Rizk (LANL), Michael Cooper (LANL), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Anton Schneider (LANL), Anders David Andersson (LANL), Stephen Novascone (INL), Christopher Matthews (LANL)
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