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NRC posts hearing request notice for Belews Creek ESP application
An opportunity to request an adjudicatory hearing for Duke Energy Carolinas’ early site permit (ESP) application for the Belews Creek site in Stokes County, N.C., has been announced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The notice of the opportunity was published February 9 in the Federal Register. The deadline to file a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is April 10, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|8:00–9:45AM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Nicholas P. Luciano
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Fiber Optic Temperature Sensor Performance in Thin Metallic Capillary Tubing
8:00–8:20AM EST
Oscar Felegy (Penn State), Scout Bucks (Penn State), Chris Balbier (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State)
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Gamma Spectrometry of Secondary Coolant Salt to Measure Mass Flow Rate and Relative Reactor Power
8:20–8:40AM EST
Nicholas Luciano (ORNL), Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin), Alexandru Aghinitei (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Spatiotemporal Full-Field Reconstruction through Virtual Sensing for Reactor System Monitoring
8:40–9:00AM EST
Jay Phil Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Non-Invasive Digitization of Nuclear Power Plants
9:00–9:20AM EST
Hank Strahley (Southern Nuclear), Harry Sim (Cypress Envirosystems)
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