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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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Granholm visits Clinch River Site to show support for SMRs
Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm visited the Clinch River Nuclear Site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on December 5 to highlight the Biden administration’s support for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s advanced nuclear technology program.
Granholm indicated that the administration is willing to provide funding for the nation’s first commercial small modular reactor at the site. “Excited to see a shovel in the ground, hopefully in a few more years,” she said. “TVA is leading on small modular reactors with this site. Everybody’s looking to TVA to make sure that this can actually happen.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Session Organizer:
Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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Considerations for NMA of Molten Salt Reactors
3:10–3:30PM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia), Michael Higgins (Sandia)
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Molten Salt Reactor Source Term Methodology
3:30–3:50PM EST
Sarah E. Creasman (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), T. Jay Harrison (ORNL), Lawrence H. Heilbronn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Preliminary Neutronics Modeling of a Molten Salt iso-Breeder Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EST
C. Erika Moss (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondřej Chvála (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Alexander M. Wheeler (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Coupled Multiphysics Simulations of Molten Salt Reactors Subjected to Earthquakes
4:10–4:30PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Kyung Tae Kim (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Som Dhulipala (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Parametric Analysis of Salt-Driven MSR Design Domains
4:30–4:50PM EST
Dahvien V. Dean (Texas A&M Univ.), Jonathan Scherr (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
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