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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NNPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Biscayne 2
Session Chair:
Sunil S. Chirayath
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Manit D. Shah
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Sensitivity Studies on Fuel Burnup and Plutonium Buildup in Pebble Bed Reactors for Fuel Parameter Perturbations
3:15–3:35PM EST
Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Sunil Chirayath (ORNL), Donald N. Kovacic (ORNL), Jianwei Hu (ORNL), Philip Gibbs (ORNL)
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Non-Proliferation Risk Model For Small Nuclear Reactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Igor Dubinsky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan-uddin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Select Proliferation Studies for TRISO-Fueled, Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactors
3:55–4:15PM EST
Sweet Shanahan (INL), Nelson Snow (INL), Quinton Williams (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Ishita Trivedi (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL)
