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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|Severe Accidents
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Mitchell T. Farmer
Alternate Chair:
Marco Pellegrini
Session Organizer:
David L. Luxat
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Determination of Effective Heat Transfer Coefficients Using the Decomposition Parameters of Silicate Concrete, the Melt Composition, and the Heating Power with AC²-COCOSYS
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Maximilian Hoffmann (Ruhr Univ. Bochum), Marco K. Koch (Ruhr Univ. Bochum)
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The Role of Zr-Oxidation During Molten Core-Concrete Interaction
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Xiaoyang Gaus-Liu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Mesh Sensitivity Analysis of the CFD Model of the Core Catcher of the ALLEGRO Reactor
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Jan Komrska (Czech Technical Univ. Prague), Pavel Zacha (Czech Technical Univ. Prague), Petr Vacha (UJV Rez)
Steam Explosion Retardant for Long-Term Coolability
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Masahiro Furuya (Waseda Univ.), Takahiro Arai (CRIEPI)
Thermodynamic Calculation Methodology of Specifically Designed Sacrificial Material for Ex-Vessel Core Catcher
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Erhui Chen (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Li Zhang (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Nan Li (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Xiao Zeng (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Qiang Guo (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Yidan Yuan (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co.), Xiao-Gang Lu (Shanghai Univ.), Yeqing Ding (Shanghai Univ.)
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