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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
James Goode (UK NNL)
Alternate Chair:
Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Brady Hanson (PNNL)
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Measurement of Aerosol Transmission Through a Stress Corrosion Crack-Like Geometry
1:00–1:20PM MST
Samuel Durbin (Sandia), Ramon Pulido (Sandia), Philip Jones (Sandia), Adrian Perales (Sandia)
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Applications of a New Probability Methodology for Corrosion Propagation Rate with Confidence Bounds for Dry Storage Canister Safety
1:20–1:40PM MST
Joshua Hoskinson (Colorado School of Mines), William Navidi (Colorado School of Mines), Zeev Shayer (Univ. New Mexico)
Environmental Impacts on Thermal Performance of Spent Fuel Storage Systems
1:40–2:00PM MST
David J. Richmond (PNNL), Ben J. Jensen (PNNL)
Developments into Understanding Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Canister Surface Environments
2:00–2:20PM MST
A.W. Knight (Sandia), R. Katona (Sandia), M. Maguire (Sandia), B. Nation (Sandia), J.M. Taylor (Sandia), R.F. Schaller (Sandia), C.R. Bryan (Sandia)
Towards Structural Integrity Investigations of Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies with Finite Element Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Olympios Alifieris (Nagra), Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Susanne Pudollek (Nagra), Michail Hadjigeorgiou (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Dimitrios Papaioannou (European Commission, JRC), Ramil Nasyrow (European Commission, JRC), Vincenzo V. Rondinella (European Commission, JRC), Stefano Caruso (Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant)
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