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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Jefferson
Session Chair:
Valeriia Starovoitova (IAEA)
Session Organizer:
Carol Johnstone
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On the Cyclotron-Based Production of Technetium-99m Isotope: Codes Benchmark for the Production Yield, Feasibility in a Commercial Accelerator, and Autonomous Target Design
10:05–10:25AM EST
Luis Fernando Salas-Tapia (Harbin Engineering Univ.), Tian Zhang (Harbin Engineering Univ.), Zhou Yang (CGN Isotope Co.), Zhigang Li (Heilongjiang Institute of Atomic Energy), Zhixin Liu (Heilongjiang Institute of Atomic Energy), Yi Wang (Heilongjiang Institute of Atomic Energy)
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Compact High gradient C-band Accelerators for Medical Accelerators
10:25–10:45AM EST
Mitchell E. Schneider (Michigan State University), Sergey V. Baryshev (Michigan State University), Valery Dolgashev (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Ryan Fleming (LANL), Dmitry Gorelov (LANL), Emily Jevarjian (LANL), John W. Lewellen (LANL), Emillio Nanni (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Sami G. Tantawi (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Evgenya I. Simakov (LANL)
Pattern Beam Production from Diamond Field Emitter Arrays (DFEAs) For Targeted Radiotherapy
10:45–11:05AM EST
Mitchell E. Schneider (Michigan State University), Heather Andrews (LANL), Sergey V. Baryshev (Michigan State University), Emily Jevarjian (LANL), Dongsung Kim (LANL), Kimberley Nichols (LANL), Taha Posos (Michigan State University), Michael Pettes (LANL), John Power (ANL), Jiahang Shao (ANL), Evgenya I. Simakov (LANL)
Photonuclear Production of Carrier-Free 99mTc via (γ, p) Reaction on 100Ru
11:05–11:25AM EST
A. Tsechanski (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev), D. Fedorchenko (Ziv Medical Center), V. Starovoitova (IAEA)
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