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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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|Water-Cooled Reactor Operations and Accident Analysis
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Chul-Hwa Song (KAERI)
Alternate Chair:
Subash Sharma (UM Lowell)
Session Organizer:
Cesare Frepoli
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NRC's Methodology to Estimate Fuel Dispersal During a Large Break Loss of Coolant Accident
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Andrew Bielen (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), James Corson (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Joseph Staudenmeier (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Methodology and Analysis to Demonstrate Avoidance of Dispersal During a LOCA in Ringhals PWRs
3:50–4:10PM EDT
J. Holmström (Ringhals), M. Holmgren (Ringhals), M. Söderström (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel), P. Gabrielsson (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel), A. Surén (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel)
Reactivity-Initiated Accident Analysis of a High Burnup PWR with a 24-Month Fuel Cycle
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Mason Fox (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jianwei Hu (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
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Evaluation of High-Burnup Fuel Coolability During a Control Rod Withdrawal
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Isabelle Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mason Fox (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathan Capps (ORNL)
CIFF: Analysis Model of Fuel Failure Risks Caused by CRUD Deposition
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Shiwei Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Hui He (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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