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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NC State releases feasibility study for new research and test reactor
North Carolina State University has completed a feasibility study for its planned advanced research and test reactor. The $3 million study, which was undertaken by the university at the direction of the North Carolina General Assembly, is described in the full report, includes recommendations and projected costs and timelines.
Reactor type: NC State prefers the new reactor to be of “a multipurpose advanced sodium-cooled mixed/coupled spectrum design,” according to the report. Such a design would make the reactor “the only sodium-cooled fast research and test reactor in the country.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Monday, June 8, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
John D. Bess
Alternate Chair:
William M. Cook
Session Organizer:
Vladimir Sobes
Staff Producer:
Eileen Cullen (American Nuclear Society)
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NCS Design and Evaluation of New High-density Storage Containers
Amber McCarthy (Consolidated Nuclear Security)
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ANSI/ANS-8.7 Applications for the Storage of Criticality Control Overpacks
Brittany M. Williamson (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
A Parametric Study of Uranium Sensitivity in an Aqueous Separations Simulation
Tracy Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC), Camden Blake (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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