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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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OPG gets final permission to construct first North American SMR
Ontario Power Generation GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy announced May 8 that Ontario authorities have approved construction plans for the first of four BWRX-300 small modular reactors at the Darlington New Nuclear Project site on Lake Ontario, less than 50 miles east of Toronto, Canada. The first new nuclear construction project in Ontario in more than three decades is also the first SMR construction project in North America.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Q-Learning Empowered Economic Dispatch for Nuclear-Driven Integrated Energy Systems
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Athanasios Ioannis Arvanitidis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Paper
Quantifying Investment Risk: Analysis of the Purchase Decision of a Nuclear Power Plant
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Ryan Spangler (INL), Jason Hansen (INL), Erna Gevondyan (ANL), T.K. Kim (ANL)
Cost Savings Through Power Controlled Critical Heat Flux Margin
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Assil Halimi (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Using an Energy Justice Framework to Improve Regulatory Policy
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Gale E. Hauck (ORNL), Steven A. Arndt (ORNL)
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