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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Educational Session|Panel|Plant Reliability
Tuesday, August 9, 2022|10:30AM–12:00PM EDT|Banyan 2
Session Chair:
Tim Schlimpert (MCR)
Track Organizer:
Emmett Wilmes (MPR)
Knowledge Manager:
Ashley Bridgmon (Southern Co.)
With higher labor costs compared to other generation fuel sources, Nuclear Plants are highly incented to maintain reliability during operating cycles, making the most of every hour generating electricity. Over time, the industry has realized reliability today is driven by investment decisions made years in the past through long range planning. Aging and obsolescence issues may take decades to develop into current threats to reliability. If there were no limitations on funding, human resources, or capacity factors, maintaining reliability would not be such a challenge. However, having limitations in all these areas, licensees are forced to make sound investment decisions many fuel cycles into the future. The importance of these decisions is even more relevant when Subsequent License Renewals are at stake. This session will present approaches to optimize future capital investment including the extended horizons of Subsequent License Renewals. The panel will discuss the challenges of “complete discovery” and the value of portfolio optimization.
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