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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Gunston
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Student Assistant:
Brison Cowan
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An Investigation of Three-Batch Fuel Management in a Natural Circulation Soluble Boron Free SMR
12:35–12:55PM EST
Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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Three-Batch Soluble-Boron-Free ATOM Core Design with Pan-Shape CSBA
12:55–1:15PM EST
Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Molten Salt Reactor Kinetics in Zero Power Approximation
1:15–1:35PM EST
Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Chelsea Fontaine-Holl (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Independent Assessment of Transformational Challenge Reactor Fuel Lattice
1:35–1:55PM EST
Yeongshin Jeong (MIT), Wei Li (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Alternate Design of the Bottom Reflector of the Transformational Challenge Reactor
1:55–2:15PM EST
A. Talamo (ANL), S.N.P. Vegendla (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. Ade (ORNL), B.R. Betzler (ORNL)
