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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (The University of Texas at Austin)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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Fission Batteries: Definition, Key Attributes, and Research and Development Needs
Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory), Jess C. Gehin (Idaho National Laboratory), Youssef A. Ballout (Idaho National Laboratory)
Paper
Limits of Fission Battery Design: Sodium-Cooled Thermal-Spectrum Fission Battery
Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Patrick J. McDaniel (University of New Mexico)
Limits of Fission Battery Design: Fluoride-salt-cooled Thermal-Spectrum Fission Battery
Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eugene Shwageraus (University of Cambridge)
Creating a Molten Salt Component Reliability Database: Initial Efforts and Path Forward
Megan E. Harkema (Vanderbilt University), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Steven L. Krahn (Vanderbilt University), Andrew G. Sowder (Electric Power Research Institute)
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