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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Educators learn about Oak Ridge’s nuclear career opportunities
Nearly 300 public school teachers, career counselors, and school administrators from 11 middle and high schools in the Oak Ridge region of Tennessee recently attended a nuclear opportunities workshop. The event was held to provide information about careers available for students in the years ahead related to the cleanup mission of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Tennessee
Session Chair:
Hitesh Bindra
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Pervasive penetration of renewable generation can cause instability in the energy infrastructure and thus require distributed and dispatchable backup clean energy generation and storage. For a stable distributed smart grid, nuclear power systems with integrated energy storage are needed. Many possible technology options exist for storing either the thermal energy from the nuclear plant or electricity from the turbine in the power cycle, each with advantages and disadvantages. The adoption of particular energy storage options is largely dependent upon the scale of energy generation, ease of integration, and the end-use. In addition to providing dispatchable electricity, other applications of energy storage systems include building heating-cooling, industrial process heat, charging electric vehicles, etc. This panel includes well-known experts in the field of energy storage and nuclear hybrid systems from industry, national laboratories, and academia to discuss the state of demonstration and development of energy storage technologies.
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