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Materials Science & Technology
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2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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Neutron noise monitoring during plant operation expedites flexure replacement at Salem-1
The nuclear industry has historically relied on intermittent ultrasonic test and visual inspections of pressurized water reactor components to identify and manage degradation. While this reactive approach has proven to be effective, imagine a scenario in which the degradation could propagate throughout the reactor internals, making a more proactive measure necessary to avoid a major enterprise risk to the plant. Could a utility identify the onset of degradation within the reactor internals during plant operation? If so, could a repair be developed prior to the next refueling outage to prevent additional, cascading degradation? That is exactly the situation that Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) and Westinghouse engineers were able to navigate over the course of the 2019–2020 operating cycle at Salem Unit 1, resulting in a tremendous success for the plant and a historic landmark in the nuclear industry, while earning the team a 2021 Nuclear Energy Institute Top Innovative Practice (TIP) award.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|3:30–5:15PM (4:30–6:15PM EDT)
Session Chair:
J. Rory Kennedy
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Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (ANS)
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Pulsed Neutron Characterization of Irradiated U-10Zr-1Pd
Sven C. Vogel (LANL), Thilo Balke (LANL), Charles A. Bouman (Purdue Univ.), Luca Capriotti (INL), Jason M. Harp (ORNL), Alex M. Long (LANL), Danielle C. Schaper (LANL), Anton S. Tremsin (Univ. of California at Berkeley), Brendt E. Wohlberg (LANL)
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On the Importance of Spectral Content in Thermal Neutron Radiography
U Steinitz (Soreq NRC), T. Y. Hirsh (Soreq NRC), O. Sharon (Soreq NRC)
Next Generation PIE at MaCS: New/Improved Capabilities and Management for NSUF Projects
Yaqiao Wu (Boise State Univ.), Jeremy Burgener (Boise State Univ.)
High Throughput Study of Ion Irradiated High Entropy Alloys
Benoit Queylat (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Moorehead (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Phalgun Nelaturu (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Mohamed Elbakhshwan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Thoma (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Dane Morgan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Adrien Couet (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Recent Advances on Microstructural Characterization and Modeling of Nuclear Graphite
J. David Arregui-Mena (ORNL), Lee Margetts (Univ. of Manchester), D. V. Griffiths (Colorado School of Mines), Robert N. Worth (Univ. of Manchester), Cristian Contescu (ORNL), Anne Campbell (ORNL), Paul M. Mummery (Univ. of Manchester), Nidia Gallego (ORNL), Philip D. Edmondson (ORNL)
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