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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.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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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Hinkley Point C gets over $6 billion in financing from Apollo
U.S.-based private capital group Apollo Global has committed £4.5 billion ($6.13 billion) in financing to EDF Energy, primarily to support the U.K.’s Hinkley Point C station. The move addresses funding needs left unmet since China General Nuclear Power Corporation—which originally planned to pay for one-third of the project—exited in 2023 amid U.K. government efforts to reduce Chinese involvement.
Technical Session|Depletion Analysis Methods
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Molly Brown
Session Chair:
Jean-Christophe Sublet (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Alternate Chair:
Rodolfo M. Ferrer (Studsvik)
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SMR Core Depletion and Spent Fuel Characterization with Nodal Code Ants
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Topias Kähkönen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Paper
Verification of CASMO5 for Higher Enrichment and High Burnup Lattice Physics Analyses
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Petri Forslund Guimarães (Studsvik), Joshua Hykes (Studsvik), Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik)
Research Reactor Core Loading Optimization: Enabling Machine Learning Applications by Employing Surrogate Models
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Julia Bartos (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Benjaminas Marcinkevicius (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Bernard Erasmus (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Christian Fedon (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Edo Frederix (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group)
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Bayesian Optimization for PWR-Core Loading Pattern Optimization
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Zhou Yuancheng (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Li Yunzhao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Wu Hongchun (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Wei Shen (Conexus Nuclear Inc.)
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