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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Jesse D. Norris (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL)
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Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (American Nuclear Society)
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Status of the KRUSTY Benchmark Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis
Jeffrey A. Favorite (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Travis J. Grove (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rene G. Sanchez (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kristin N. Smith (Texas A&M University College Station), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Fast-Spectrum Critical Assemblies with a Pb-HEU Core Surrounded by a Copper Reflector
George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kelsey Amundson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
TEX-HEU: Integral Experiments with Highly Enriched Uranium and Polyethylene
Catherine G. Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Dave P. Heinrichs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), William J. Zywiec (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Anthony J. Nelson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jesse D. Norris (University of California Berkeley)
Update on the Benchmark Analysis of the Jupiter Experiments: Plutonium Moderated by Lead
Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Alexander T. McSpaden (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Critical Unresolved Region Integral Experiment Execution
David K. Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rene G. Sanchez (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Travis J. Grove (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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