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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 Verification and Validation Impl
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST|3
Session Chair:
Chris Jones (Kansas State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Nathan Porter (Sandia)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Staff Producer:
Kai Duemmler (NC State Univ.)
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Subcooled Boiling Models in CTF: Analysis and Separate Effects Validation
Nathan W. Porter (Sandia National Laboratories), Lindsay N. Gilkey (Sandia National Laboratories)
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Verification: a physics-based procedure with applications to CTF and BISON
Nathan W. Porter (Sandia National Laboratories), Aysenur Toptan (Idaho National Laboratory), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Martin Pilch (MPilchConsulting)
Application of Predictive Capability Maturity Model for Assessment of VERA-CS for CASL Challenge Problems
Christopher Jones (Kansas State University), Paridhi Athe (North Carolina State University), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University)
Can We Expect Our Codes to Converge to the Correct Answer for Our Intended Applications
Martin Pilch (MPilchConsulting)
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