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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 RPD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Biscayne 1
Session Chair:
David Chandler (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Justin K. Watson (Univ. Florida)
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Plutonium-238 Production Sensitivity and Validation Studies Continued: Effects of Core Component Compositions
3:15–3:35PM EST
D. Chandler (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), K.M. Burg (ORNL), Y.E. Robert (ORNL)
Paper
Beryllium Reflector Experiment Effects on High Flux Isotope Reactor Performance Metrics
3:35–3:55PM EST
D. Chandler (ORNL)
Preliminary Analysis of Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) Fuel Performance in the MIT Reactor Fission Converter Experimental Facility
3:55–4:15PM EST
Caroline Sears (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT), Kyle Anderson (ANL), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
SCALE Inventory and Reactivity Analysis as Part of the Hermes 2021 PSAR Review
4:15–4:35PM EST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Ben Betzler (Radiant), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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Neutronic Simulation of Daily Load Following Operation in a PWR-Based SMR Core
4:35–4:55PM EST
Woo Jin Lee (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Hyun Cho (Hanyang Univ.), Ser Gi Hong (Hanyang Univ.)