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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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United States, Armenia reach agreement on nuclear cooperation
Vice President J.D. Vance and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the signing of the 123 Agreement. (Photo: Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia)
During his visit to Armenia on February 9, Vice President J.D. Vance signed an agreement with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for cooperation in the civil nuclear energy sector. The “Agreement on Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Government of the United States of America in the Field of Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy” will reportedly open the door to $5 billion in initial U.S. nuclear-related exports to Armenia, in addition to $4 billion worth of longer-term fuel and maintenance contracts.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Tennessee
Session Chair:
Temi Adeyeye (NuScale)
Alternate Chair:
Timothy M. Crook (Blue Wave AI Labs)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann (ANL)
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Evaluating Scaling Effects of Steam Condensation Physics-Based Model for Small Modular Reactor
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Joshua P. Schlegel (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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Accelerating Nuclear Fuels and Materials Qualification by Multi-Level Irradiation Experiment Campaign
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Palash K. Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Brenden Heidrich (INL), Richard H. Howard (ORNL)
Effect of Fuel-Moderator Porosity in Advanced HTGR Designs on the Depressurized Loss of Forced Convection and Compressor Power Requirements
10:40–11:00AM EDT
John Matulis (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
Damage Assessment of Advanced High Temperature Fluid Reactor Piping System with Guided Wave Ultrasonics
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Chenxi Xu (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Matthew Daly (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Didem Ozevin (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
Transient Modelling of HTGR Thermal Load Follow in Modelica
11:20–11:40AM EDT
Aidan Rigby (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Daniel Mikkelson (INL)
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