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2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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 RPSD
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|11:00AM–12:45PM (12:00–1:45PM EDT)
Session Chair:
Dominic Napolitano
Alternate Chair:
Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Michael Lorne Fensin
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (ANS)
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Molten Salt Reactor Fission Source Characterization and Initial Shielding Analysis
Kyle Carberry (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Summary
Overview of the 2020 SCALE 6.2.4 Validation Report for Radiation Shielding Applications
Mathieu N. Dupont (ORNL), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Georgeta Radulescu (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
3D Model Visual Verification and Mesh-Based Data Analysis in Fulcrum
R. A. Lefebvre (ORNL), S. R. Johnson (ORNL), W. J. Marshall (ORNL), C. Celik (ORNL)
Modeling Additional Dose from Adding Uranium-232 to the Uranium Fuel Cycle
Joshua Rhodes (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Brandon Grogan (ORNL), Alan Krichinsky (ORNL), Brad Patton (ORNL), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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