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Nuclear Installations Safety
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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BWXT announces nuclear manufacturing plant expansion
BWX Technologies announced today plans to expand and add advanced manufacturing equipment to its manufacturing plant in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
A $36.3 million USD ($50M CAD) expansion will increase the plant’s size by 25 percent—to 280,000 square feet—and another $21.7 million USD ($30M CAD) will be spent on new equipment to increase and accelerate its output of large nuclear components. The investment will increase capacity and create more than 200 long-term jobs for skilled workers, engineers, and support staff, according to the company.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Haselton
Session Chair:
Baocheng Zhang (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Petri Guimaraes (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Analytic Error Analysis of Cross Section Interpolation Methods in Nodal Diffusion Codes-I: Theory
Thomas Folk (Univ. Michigan), Siddhartha Srivastava (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Krishna Garikipati (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Analytic Error Analysis of Cross Section Interpolation Methods in Nodal Diffusion Codes-II: Numerical Results
POLCA8 -- Modelling of Cross Section Variations Inside Hexagonal Assemblies
Sten-Orjan Lindahl (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Antonios Mylonakis (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Sensitivity Analysis of Homogenized Cross Sections in AP1000 Lattices
Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Thomas Folk (Univ. Michigan), Siddhartha Srivastava (Univ. Michigan), Krishna Garikipati (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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