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Germany election brings nuclear power back into spotlight
It’s been less than two years since Germany shuttered its three remaining nuclear plants on April 15, 2023—the culmination of a decision reached during the backlash following the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in 2011.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Acacia
Session Chair:
JoAnne Hanners (DOE-NE)
Alternate Chair:
Anna Podgorney (NEUP/INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Aggregation of Hidden Markov Models for Prognostics of Maintenance-Dependent Processes
1:00–1:20PM MST
Mattia Zanotelli (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), J. Wesley Hines (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie B. Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Depletion Perturbation Theory Developments in Monte Carlo Simulations
1:20–1:40PM MST
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
NuQKD: Development of a QKD Simulation Tool for Nuclear Reactor Communications
1:40–2:00PM MST
Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Reshma Ughade (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Modeling Deposition and Resuspension in an Integral Pressurized Water Reactor
2:00–2:20PM MST
Iza Lantgios (Univ. Pittsburgh), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Katherine Hornbostel (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Validation Experiment Design for HENRI Coupled Code CONSTELATION
2:20–2:40PM MST
A. Warren (Oregon State), G. Mignot (Oregon State), T.K. Howard (Oregon State), W. Marcum (Oregon State)
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