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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
This session will primarily focus on the research and development activities at various universities in the area of gas cooled, molten salt cooled, lead cooled, sodium cooled, and rabbit development. The presentations and speakers will be: 1) Na Cartridge Loop Development (Mark Anderson and Seungjin Kim); 2) GFR Cartridge Loop Development (N.K. Anand and Xiaodong Sun); 3) Lead Cartridge Loop Development (Osman Anderoglu and Heng Ban); 4) MS Cartridge Loop Development (Rich Christensen and Mike Simpson); and 5) Rabbit System Development (Sean McDeavitt)
Mark Anderson
University of Wisconsin
Seungjin Kim
Purdue
N.K. Anand
TAMU
Xiaodong Sun
Univ. Michigan
Osman Anderoglu
Univ. of New Mexico
Heng Ban
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Rich Christensen
Univ. of Idaho
Mike Simpson
Utah
Sean McDeavitt
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