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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (U.S. Department of Energy)
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Staff Producer:
Dan Goldberg (American Nuclear Society)
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Cost/Risk-Decisioneering on Used Nuclear Fuel: Application on US UNF-management futures
Luc G. Van Den Durpel (Nuclear-21)
Paper
Data-based Optimization for Off-loading an SFP via a TAD Canister
Michael S. Smith (UNC Charlotte), Sven O. Bader (Orano USA), Brad Crotts (Orano Federal Services LLC), Yesim Sireli (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Tracking the Thermal History of Spent Fuel Canisters
Emilian Popov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kaushik Banerjee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
EPRI's Accelerated Corrosion Tests and Analysis of Pits and Blisters for BORAL® Coupons
Hatice Akkurt (Electric Power Research Institute)
Characterization of FeCrAl Cladding in the Entire Fuel Cycle.
Raul B. Rebak (GE Research), Andrew K. Hoffman (GE Research), Liang Yin (GE Research), Aida Amroussia (GE Research), Dan R. Lutz (GE Power)
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