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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 Plenary SPeaker
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Patrick Blaise is currently scientific advisor for Gen2&3 and SMR R&D programs at the Scientific Division for Energies at CEA (French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission), in charge of co-building the Simulation and Experiment R&D roadmap for the next decade. He was former Chief Scientist for CEA Research Reactor network, technical correspondent for several international collaborations, and head of the Experimental Programs Laboratory (LPE), in charge of 3 main ZPRs (EOLE, MINERVE and MASURCA) at CEA Cadarache Research Centre.
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