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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
Wright
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Andrew R. Griffith
Alternate Chair:
Cathy S. Dixon
Session Organizer:
Kim Dougherty
Student Assistant:
Robin Roper
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Update on the Ongoing Ultra-Small Modular Reactor Design Project
4:25–4:45PM EST
Naiki Kaffezakis (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper
Facile Oxide to Chalcogenide Conversion for Actinides Using the Boron-Chalcogen Mixture Method
4:45–5:05PM EST
Logan S. Breton (Univ. of South Carolina), Vladislav V. Klepov (Univ. of South Carolina), Hans-Conrad zur Loye (Univ. of South Carolina)
Disorder in Ho2Ti2-xZrxO7: Pyrochlore to Defect Fluorite Solid Solution Series
5:05–5:25PM EST
Devon Drey (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Eric O'Quinn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Phase Evolution in Annealed U-22.5 at.% Zr and U-52.8 at.% Zr Foils Characterized with Scanning Electron Microscopy and In-Situ Neutron Diffraction
5:25–5:45PM EST
W. J. Williams (INL), S. C. Vogel (LANL), M. A. Okuniewski (Purdue Univ.)
A Machine Learning Regression Approach for Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Scintillators
5:45–6:05PM EST
Matthew Durbin (Penn State Univ.), Marc Wonders (PNNL), Marek Flaska (Penn State Univ.), Azaree Lintereur (Univ. of Utah)
Toward a Broader Understanding of the Transitional Speciation in the Actinide-Lanthanide Separation Process
6:05–6:25PM EST
Gabriela Picayo (Colorado School of Mines), Mark Jensen (Colorado School of Mines)
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