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From SPARC to ARC: CFS prepares for a first-of-a-kind fusion plant
Commonwealth Fusion Systems makes no small plans. The company wants to build a 400-MWe magnetic confinement fusion power plant called ARC near Richmond, Va., and begin operating it in the early 2030s. And the plans don’t end there. CFS wants to deploy “thousands” of fusion power plants capable of accelerating a global energy transition.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Radiation Transport Methods
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST|2
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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MPACT Diffusion Coefficient Improvement Through Westinghouse Collaboration
Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan), Aaron M. Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kang S. Kim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Corporation)
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Subgrid Methods to Address Axial Heterogeneities in MPACT
Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Shane G. Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron M. Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Verification Framework in MPACT
Jipu Wang (University of Michigan), Martin Pilch (MPilchConsulting), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan), William R. Martin (University of Michigan)
MPACT Validation
Shane Stimpson (Oak Ridge National Lab), Ben S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Lab), Yuxuan Liu (University of Michigan), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan), Tom Downar (University of Michigan)
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