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Developing a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors: Update on Part 53
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The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) on March 29 held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. The presenter, Patrick White with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA), talked about the current status of efforts to develop a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors—known as 10 CFR Part 53 or simply Part 53. White serves as the research director of the NIA, where he leads their research as well as analysis-based stakeholder and policymaker engagement and education. White’s March 29 presentation is publicly available on YouTube and at ANS’s publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR).
RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the CoP with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C before he welcomed White as the session’s presenter.
White covered three main topics: the history of the existing regulatory frameworks for new reactors, progress to date on the development of the Part 53 rule for advanced reactors, and the current status and next steps for the Part 53 rulemaking process.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Steven B. Krivit
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Yasuhiro Iwamura
According to the best understanding so far, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) are the result of neutron-based electroweak interactions. They are a class of nuclear reactions that occur at or near room temperature based on Standard Model physics and can occur in condensed matter under mild macrophysical conditions. They differ from nuclear fission or fusion which rely on strong-force interactions. Unlike fission reactions, low-energy nuclear reactions do not produce nuclear chain reactions. Among novel concepts in nuclear energy research, LENRs are unique in that laboratory experiments have demonstrated the generation of net energy. The experimental research demonstrates the production of nuclear-scale heat and changes to atomic numbers and atomic masses of reactants.
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Material Analysis of Anomalous Heat Experiments Using Hydrogen-Filled Nanometallic Composites
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yasuhiro Iwamura (Tohoku Univ.), Takehiko Itoh (Tohoku Univ.), Shinobu Yamauchi (Clean Planet, Inc.), Tomonori Takahashi (Clean Planet, Inc.)
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions in Highly Driven Light Water Electrolysis: From Circumstantial Evidence to Unambiguous Nuclear Signatures
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Raj Ganesh S. Pala (Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur), Ankit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur), Raviraj Nehra (Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur), K. P. Rajeev (Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur)
Peculiar Phenomena Observed in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactors
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Bin-Juine Huang (National Taiwan Normal University), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Po-Hsien Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Jong-Fu Yeh (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Ming-Li Tso (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Ying-Hung Liu (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Litu Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Ching-Kang Huang (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), I-Fee Chen (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), Che-Hao Lin (Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc), T.R. Tseng (Mastek Technologies, Inc), Fang-Wei Kang (Mastek Technologies, Inc), Tan-Feng Tsai (Mastek Technologies, Inc), Kuan-Che Lan (National Tsing Hua University), Yi-Tung Chen (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Mou-Yung Liao (National Taiwan University), Li Xu (National Taiwan University), Sih-Li Chen (National Taiwan University), Robert W. Greenyer (Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project)
Linear Flow Network Analysis of Resonator in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Mou-Yung Liao (Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University), Bin-Juine Huang (Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan), Li Xu (Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan), Sih-Li Chen (Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices (ATD), Inc., Konglin Group, New Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuan-Che Lan (Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Tung Chen (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
Hot Hydrogen Testing of Uranium Nitride Cermet for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Benjamin Larson (Brigham Young Univ.), Jhonathan Rosales (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Brian Taylor (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Jason Reynolds (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Nathan Jerred (INL), Jamelle Williams (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Arne Croell (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Martin Volz (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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