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August 24–27, 2026
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Bob Martin
Alternate Chair:
Arturo Cabral
Session Organizer:
Lander Ibarra
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SAM Code Validation of Natural Convection in Molten Salt
1:05–1:25PM EST
Jadyn Reis (Texas A&M Univ.), Michael Gorman (Texas A&M Univ.), Brent Hollrah (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
Paper
Validation Effort for the OSU HTTF PG-28 Test Using RELAP5-3D
1:25–1:45PM EST
Joshua K. Halsted (Oregon State Univ.), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State Univ.)
Preliminary Analysis of Journal Bearings for Molten Salt Pumps
1:45–2:05PM EST
Yuqi Liu (Univ. of New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. of New Mexico)
Preliminary Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis for Heat Pipe Irradiation Test in the MIT Reactor
2:05–2:25PM EST
Aaron S. Epiney (INL), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Justin Johnson (INL)
