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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
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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