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Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station: Not the reactor you may be thinking of
The proposed location of Douglas Point in Maryland, on the banks of the Potomac River, compared to currently operating nuclear plants in Maryland and Virginia.
The Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station that is the subject of this article is not the CANDU reactor that operated in Ontario from 1966 to 1984. This one was a proposed nuclear power plant in Charles County, Md., that was to provide power to the Washington D.C. area, about 30 miles north of the intended site.
In the early 1970s, the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) was looking for additional means of generation. At the time, the Washington D.C. metropolitan area was one of the fastest growing regions in the nation.
Site selection was tricky for PEPCO, as the company was contending with a confined load in a growing urban area. A new site as near as possible to the load center that could house at least 2,000 MWe of generating capacity and keep development costs down was needed. Three sites were ultimately reviewed: Douglas Point on the lower Potomac River, a second site toward the mouth of the Potomac River, and a third on the shore of Chesapeake Bay.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Friday, December 3, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
John Gilligan (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Needle Probe Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity of Reference Liquids
3:10–3:30PM EST
Brian Merritt (Brigham Young Univ.), Michael Seneca (Brigham Young Univ.), Troy Munro (Brigham Young Univ.)
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Defect Classification in Simulated Pulsed Thermal Tomography Images Using Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network
3:30–3:50PM EST
Victoria Ankel (ANL), Dzmitry Shribak (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Autonomous Fault Detection for Microreactor Operations - Looking Ahead
3:50–4:10PM EST
Mario Mendoza (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
History and Future of Adaptive Mesh Refinement in Nuclear Engineering for Increased Fidelity and Computational Efficiency
4:10–4:30PM EST
Kristin Stolte (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
Improved Point Kinetic Parameters Generation for Pebble Bed Reactor Transient Simulation Using NEAMS Tools
4:30–4:50PM EST
David Reger (Penn State Univ.), Paolo Balestra (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.)
Fast Neutron Computed Tomography Station at The Ohio State University Research Reactor
4:50–5:10PM EST
Matthew Bisbee (Ohio State Univ.), Ibrahim Oksuz (Ohio State Univ.), Matthew VanZile (Ohio State Univ.), Lei Cao (Ohio State Univ.)
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