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Kairos Power breaks ground on first power-producing reactor in Oak Ridge
On April 17, Kairos Power broke ground on its Hermes 2 demonstration plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn, for which it received test reactor construction permits from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November 2024. Kairos expects Hermes 2 to begin operations by 2030, when the fluoride salt–cooled high temperature reactor could become the first NRC-licensed non–light water reactor to produce power.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Physics Integration
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST|3
Session Chair:
Ross Bartlett (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
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Staff Producer:
Chase Lawing (NC State Univ.)
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Development of the VERA Quality Assurance Program
Scott P. Palmtag (North Carolina State University), Lori Moore (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David J. Kropaczek (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Componentized hieratical build and test infrastructure and processes for CASL VERA
Roscoe A. Bartlett (Sandia National Labs)
Capabilities of VERA Version 4
Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Scott P. Palmtag (North Carolina State University), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
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