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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Capistrano A
Session Chair:
Andrew G. Sowder (EPRI)
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Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Model Assumptions and Design Choices that Contribute to Varying Estimates of Nuclear Energy Deployment in Deep Decarbonization Assessments
W. Neal Mann (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Brent W. Dixon (INL)
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Impacts of Zero-Emissions Policy Design and Timing on Nuclear Deployment in the U.S.
John Bistline (EPRI)
Modeling Early-Market Deployment of Novel Nuclear Technologies
Laura Martin (Energy Information Administration), Chris Namovicz (Energy Information Administration), Augustine Kwon (Energy Information Administration)
Nuclear's Role in the U.S. Electricity System: A Multi-Model Inter-Comparison Analysis
Jonathan Ho (NREL), Caitlin Murphy (NREL), Wesley Cole (NREL)
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