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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Federal Power Act amendments focus on grid reliability
Fedorchak
North Dakota’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican freshman Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, has introduced the Baseload Reliability Protection Act.
The bill aims to “amend the Federal Power Act to prohibit retirements of baseload electric generating units in any area that is served by a Regional Transmission Organization or an Independent System Operator and that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation [NERC] categorizes as at elevated risk or high risk of electricity supply shortfalls, and for other purposes.”
A summary of the legislation is available on Fedorchak’s House website.
Amendments: The Baseload Reliability Protection Act would amend the Federal Power Act in the following ways:
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Coral A
Session Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Bart Verdonschot (NRG)
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A Numerical Test Bed on Algorithms Efficient for Advanced System Analysis Code Development
10:00–10:20AM EST
Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
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Implementing a Corrosion-Oxidation Modeling Capability in SAM for Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors
10:20–10:40AM EST
Travis Mui (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Severe Accident Analysis of OPR-1000 Plant Using CINEMA Code
10:40–11:00AM EST
Jun-young Kang (KAERI), Donggun Son (KAERI), Jae Hyun Ham (KAERI), Yong Mann Song (KAERI), Jun Ho Bae (KAERI)
A New One-Dimensional Model for Thermal Mixing and Stratification in Reactor Applications
11:00–11:20AM EST
Eric Cervi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Yeongshin Jeong (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Development of A System Analysis Model to Evaluate the Conceptual Design of the Reactor Cavity Cooling System of the Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HC-HTGR)
11:20–11:40AM EST
Yeongshin Jeong (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
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