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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Xiaodong Sun (Univ. Michigan)
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Thermal Hydraulic Experiments and Code Validation for LWR SMRs Within the European McSAFER Project: Overview of Activities and Current Status
10:45–11:05AM EDT
H. Suikkanen (LUT Univ.), J. Telkkä (LUT Univ.), V. Kouhia (LUT Univ.), S. Gabriel (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), G. Albrecht (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), W. Heiler (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), F. Heineken (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), V. H. Sanchez-Espinoza (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), H. Li (Royal Institute of Technology), D. Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), M. Bencik (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), L. Vyskocil (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), V. Dolecek (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), C. Queral (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), K. Fernandez-Cosials (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), L. Rueda Villegas (Tractebel ENGIE), C. R. Schneidesch (Tractebel ENGIE)
Paper
Measurement of Aerosol Mass Transfer and Hydrodynamics in a Bubble Column Using Wire-Mesh Sensors
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Alvaro Ramos Perez (Paul Scherrer Institute), Terttaliisa Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute), Annalisa Manera (Paul Scherrer Institute), Victor Petrov (Paul Scherrer Institute), Horst-Michael Prasser (ETH Zürich)
RIVA: A New Experimental Facility for Fast Blowdown and Pressurization of Small Containment
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Lucia Sargentini (CEA), Constantin Ledier (CEA), Arnaud Chazottes (CEA)
High-Fidelity Experiments of Turbulent Buoyant Jets from Simultaneous Particle Image Velocimetry and Laser Induced Fluorescence
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Valentina Valori (ETH Zurich), Sunming Qin (INL), Victor Petrov (ETH Zürich), Annalisa Manera (ETH Zürich)
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