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Kentucky disburses $10M in nuclear grants
The Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (KNEDA) recently distributed its first awards through the new Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program, which was established last year. In total, KNEDA disbursed $10 million to a variety of companies that will use the funding to support siting studies, enrichment supply-chain planning, workforce training, and curriculum development.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
William F. Cureton (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Track Organizers:
Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
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Internal Restructuring of TRISO Fuel Layers During Irradiation
9:30–9:50AM CST
T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), C. Griesbach (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), D. Schappel (ORNL), J.D. Arregui-Mena (ORNL), R. Thevamaran (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
Paper
Modeling of TRISO Coating Layer Fracture due to Buffer Debonding
9:50–10:10AM CST
Wen Jiang (NCSU), William F. Skerjanc (INL)
Micro-Mechanical Response of SiC-OPyC Layers in TRISO Fuel Particles
10:10–10:30AM CST
Katherine Montoya (ORNL), Erik Herbert (ORNL), Danny Schappel (ORNL), Tyler Gerczak (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Andrew Nelson (ORNL)
Thermomechanical Evaluation of Fracture Methods on TRISO Fuel Behavior
10:30–10:50AM CST
R.T. Sweet (INL), G. Singh (INL), J.A. Hirschhorn (INL), W. Jiang (INL)
Finite-Element-Based Thermomechanical Property Correlations for TRISO Fuels
10:50–11:10AM CST
Sam Heflin (LANL), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Vedant Mehta (LANL), Holly Trellue (LANL)
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Anisotropy of Pyrocarbon Layers in Irradiated TRISO Fuel
11:10–11:30AM CST
W.F. Cureton (ORNL), T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), D.J. Skitt (ORNL), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
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