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General Matter to supply enriched uranium to Japan and South Korea
American enrichment start-up General Matter is to export nuclear fuel to Japan and South Korea, backed by up to $4.2 billion in potential debt financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM).
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Eva E. Davidson
Session Organizer:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Towards 2D Reference Deterministic Calculations in Support of Industrial Model Verification and Advanced Reflector Modeling Setup
10:15–10:35AM PDT
F. Inzirillo (Politecnico di Milano), A. Brighenti (Framatome), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), L. Graziano (Framatome), A. Hebert (Polytechnique Montréal), G. Marleau (Polytechnique Montréal), S. Santandrea (CEA), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
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New Thermal and Leakage Synthetic Algorithms Applied to Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations
10:35–10:55AM PDT
A. Brighenti (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
Enhancing PWR Monte Carlo Simulations with GREAPMC: A GPU-Accelerated Approach
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Muhammad Rizwan Ali (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Murat Serdar Aygul (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Enrichment Interpolation for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Macroscopic Cross Section for Polaris/PARCS
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Junsu Kang (Univ. Michigan), Andrew M. Ward (Univ. Michigan), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Thomas J. Downar (Univ. Michigan)
Core Physics Characteristics of Extended Enrichment and Higher Burnup Boiling Water Reactor Fuel
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Riley Cumberland (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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