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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Kallie E. Metzger
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Assessment of Fuel Relocation of Halden 650.5 LOCA Experiment based on Microstructure Observation and FRAPTRAN Prediction
Joosuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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Fabrication and Microstructural Analysis of U6Fe
Thomas C. Kirtley (University of Texas at San Antonio), Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas San Antonio)
A Stochastic Clad Damage Propagation Model for Lead Fast Reactors
Aydin Karahan (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Tanju Sofu (Argonne National Laboratory), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Company), Adrian Tentner (Argonne National Laboratory), Anton Moisseytsev (Argonne National Laboratory)
Validation of Extended Oxide Fuel Performance Models of SAS4A
Aydin Karahan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Simulation of Experimental Study on Nuclear Fuel Cracking
Casey Steinman (Idaho State University), Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar (Idaho State University)
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