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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Quad Cities violations lead to NRC confirmatory order
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a confirmatory order to Constellation Energy Generation outlining the agreed-on actions to address apparent violations of agency requirements at Quad Cities nuclear power plant in Cordova, Ill. The corrective and preventive actions are based on a June neutral party–mediated alternative dispute resolution (ADR) session that had been requested by Constellation to help it and agency decide on steps forward.
Technical Session|New and Advanced Reactors
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Robert P. Martin (Independent)
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Alternate Chair:
Paolo Balestra (INL)
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Investigation of Static Boiling in a Large Scale RCCS
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Q. Lv (ANL), M. Jasica (ANL), D. Lisowski (ANL), Z. Ooi (ANL), A. Kraus (ANL), R. Hu (ANL), M. Farmer (ANL)
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Uncoupled DEM Simulation to Investigate the Impact of Coolant Flow on Pebble Flow in Pebble Bed Reactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Muhammad Sohaib Malik (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jiaqi Chen (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy P. Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Refractive Index Matched Pebble Bed Facility for High Resolution Experiments of DLOFC and PLOFC Accidents in MPBRs
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Zachary Welker (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Turbulence Characteristics Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition in an 84-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Assembly
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Craig Menezes (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
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