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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Kristin Stolte (Texas A&M Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Implementation of Partial Current Discontinuity Factors in VARIANT Nodal Transport Analysis
Puran Deng (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Won Sik Yang (University of Michigan), Robert N. Wahlen (Niowave, Inc.), Chad P. Denbrock (Niowave Inc.), Terry L. Grimm (Niowave, Inc.)
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Analytic Insights into the Neutronic Characteristics of Neutron Moderators from MCNP Calculations
Donald K. Parsons (Los Alamos)
Energy Deposition in the OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code
Paul K. Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), Andrew Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology), Amanda L. Lund (Argonne National Laboratory), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua University)
Fast Reproduction of Time-dependent MOC Calculations using the Reduced Order Model based on the Proper Orthogonal and Singular Value Decompositions
Kosuke Tsujita (Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya University), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya University)
Evaluating Methods for Modeling Disk Fuel Samples with SCALE
Tucker D. Sawyer (University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
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