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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Radiation Transport Methods
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Bill Martin (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Tara Pandya (ORNL)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Subgroup and MOC Performance Improvements in MPACT
Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yuxuan Liu (University of Michigan), Kevin Clarno (University of Texas), Brendan Kochunas (University of Michigan)
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Stability, Robustness, and Performance of CMFD in Whole Core Calculations
Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan)
Utilizing Shift in VERA for Ex-Core Calculations
Tara M. Pandya (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Katherine E. Royston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas M. Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The Windowed Multipole Formalism and Applications to Uncertainty Quantification
Abdulla Alhajri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Pablo P. Ducru (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Benoit Forget (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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