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In an effort to revamp its nuclear sector and enable the buildout of new projects, the U.K. has unveiled a sweeping set of changes to project deployment. These changes, which are set to come into effect by the end of next year, will restructure the country’s regulatory and environmental approval framework and directly support new growth through various workforce efforts.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Alisha Kasam-Griffith (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Florent Heidet
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Investigation of Fuel Assembly Homogenization Effect and Improvement for VTR
Tingzhou Fei (Argonne National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Zhiwen Xu (TerraPower), Zhaopeng Zhong (Argonne National Laboratory)
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CFD Analysis of the Effect of Edge Fillets on Pressure Drop for a Pipe-to-Annulus Geometry
Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Su-Jong Yoon (Idaho National Laboratory), Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
OpenMC-Based Generation of Multigroup Cross-Sections for Analysis of the Versatile Test Reactor
Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Adam G. Nelson (Argonne National Laboratory), Alisha A. Kasam-Griffith (Argonne National Laboratory)
Design and Demonstration of a Rabbit Experiment System for the Versatile Test Reactor
Abdullah Weiss (Texas A&M University), Jason Hearne (Texas A&M University), David W. Wootan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University), Delia Perez-Nunez (Texas A&M University), Luis H. Ortega (Texas A&M University), Karen V. Kirkland (Texas A&M University), Mark L. Kimber (Texas A&M University), Sean M. McDeavitt (Texas A&M University)
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