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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Sonoran 3
Session Chair:
Jun Liao
Alternate Chair:
Marilyn Delgado
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
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Assessment of Oxide Layer Growth Models for Research Reactor Design Demonstration Element
8:00–8:20AM MST
SuJong Yoon (INL), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Cole M. Mueller (INL), Theron D. Marshall (INL)
Paper
Fluid-to-Fluid Scaling Analysis and Design for Reduced Integral Effect Test Facility of OPR1000
8:20–8:40AM MST
Do Yeong Lim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Ji Hyun Kim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Optimization of the Energy Conversion Cycle of a Heat Pipe-Cooled Micro Reactor for Space Applications
8:40–9:00AM MST
Luay M. Alawneh (TAMU), Faisal Aldebie (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Harold G. "Sonny" White (Limitless Space Institute)
Preliminary Third-Order Analysis of a Free Piston Stirling Engine
9:00–9:20AM MST
Phat Doan (Univ. New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
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