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Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
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)
Paper
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)
