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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
Technical Session
Thursday, October 7, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Simplified Thermal Expansion Modeling for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors
10:40–11:05AM EDT
William C. Dawn (NC State Univ.), Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Paper
First Approach to Analyse Control Rod Withdrawal Transient in SFR With a Multi-Physics Methodology
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Marlène Jeannin (CEA), Vincent Pascal (CEA), Victor Blanc (CEA), Jean-Baptiste Droin (CEA), Laurent Buiron (CEA), Pablo Rubiolo (LPSC)
Coupled Multiphysics Multiscale Transient Simulations of the Mk1-FHR Reactor Using Finite Volume Capabilities of the MOOSE Framework
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Robert Carlsen (INL), Javier Ortensi (INL), Derek Gaston (INL), Mark DeHart (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), April J. Novak (ANL)
Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Fast Reactor Reloading Optimization with Approximate Fitness Evaluation
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Michael Jarrett (ANL), Florent Heidet (ANL)
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