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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|2:35–4:00PM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Erin Wehlage (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Student Assistant:
Matthew Hageman
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Transient Characterization in High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors Using Deep Neural Networks
2:40–3:00PM EST
Andy Rivas (NC State Univ.), G. K. Delipei (NC State Univ.), Ian Davis (X-Energy), Yvotte Brits (X-Energy), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Removing Safeguards and Security Roadblocks for Advanced Reactors
3:00–3:20PM EST
Ben Cipiti (Sandia), Alison Hahn (U.S. DOE)
Improving Microreactor Competitiveness Using an Economics-by-Design Approach
3:20–3:40PM EST
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Andrew Foss (INL), Yasir Arafat (INL), Brent Dixon (INL)
NERTHUS MSR Dynamic Model
3:40–4:00PM EST
Nicholas Dunkle (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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