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NS Savannah soon open to the public
The world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah, will have a public site visit in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, February 21.
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Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
David L. Luxat
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
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The SAIGA In-Pile Experimental Test to Study the Degradation of a SFR Core with Mitigation Devices in Severe Accident Conditions
9:00–9:20AM EDT
F. Payot (CEA), F. Charollais (CEA), E. Dufour (CEA), Y. Lejeail (CEA), G. Blevin (CEA), L. Trotignon (CEA), G. De Izarra (CEA), F. Michel (CEA), V. Dupont (CEA), N. Chikhi (CEA), R. Clavier (CEA), E. Batyrbekov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Vurim (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), A. Pakhnits (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan), V. Baklanov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Paper
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Experiments and Modeling of Water-Cooled SMR Severe Accidents to Inform Level 4 and 5 Defence-in-Depth
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Luke Lebel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Andrew Morreale (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Eric Jia (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Feng Zhou (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), David Hummel (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), Scott Ormiston (Univ. Manitoba), Geoffrey Gray (Univ. Manitoba)
Preliminary Analysis of Severe Accident in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Using Eutectic Reaction Model of Boron-Carbide Control-Rod Material
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Morita (Kyushu Univ.)
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