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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Obstacles to new nuclear in Sweden cleared
Aerial view of Sweden’s parliament building, Riksdagshuset, in Stockholm. (Photo: Arild Vågen/Wikipedia)
Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag, has approved legislative amendments from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government that will remove the country’s prohibition on new reactor construction at sites other than Sweden’s three current nuclear plants—Forsmark, Ringhals, and Oskarshamn—and do away with the limitation on the number of simultaneously operating reactors, currently capped at 10.
The amendments enter force on January 1.
“The Riksdag shares the government’s assessment that fossil-free electricity from nuclear power will also continue to play a role of central importance in the Swedish energy mix,” the legislative body said in a statement following the November 29 vote. “The main reasons for this are an expected greater demand for electricity in combination with the fact that fossil fuels have to be phased out, particularly for climate reasons. Nuclear power also contributes to the stable and predictable functioning of the Swedish power system.”
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Won Sik Yang (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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Implementation of a Resonance Calculation Using Energy Spectrum Expansion Method Into Heterogeneous Transport Calculation Code GALAXY-Z
3:30–3:55PM EDT
Kazuya Yamaji (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Hiroki Koike (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Koichi Ieyama (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Daisuke Sato (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Satoshi Takeda (Osaka Univ.)
Summary
Dynamic Construction of Physical Probability Tables for Resonant Mixture
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Emeline Rosier (CEA), Li Mao (CEA), Luiz Leal (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire)
Iterative Local Spatial Self-Shielding Method of MC2-3 for Particulate Fuel Modeling
4:20–4:45PM EDT
Hansol Park (ANL), Won Sik Yang (Univ. of Michigan), Changho Lee (ANL)
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