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Deploying nuclear power: Financing, risk, and execution in the current market environment
Nielson
The renewed global interest in nuclear power is often framed as a policy story driven by decarbonization goals, energy security concerns, and surging electricity demand from digital infrastructure and electrification. While these forces are real and durable, they materially understate the challenge at hand. The practical constraint on nuclear deployment today is not strategic will, but execution. Specifically, the challenge lies in how nuclear projects are financed, how risk is allocated, and how investors assess credibility in a sector defined by long timelines and asymmetric downside risk.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Teresa Portone (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chun Chang (LBNL)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Review of Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling at DOE's Legacy Sites for Improving the Fidelity of Performance Assessments
1:00–1:20PM MST
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Amy Jordan (Neptune), Laren Foster (Neptune), Steve Yabusaki (PNNL), Philip Long (LBNL), Stefan Finsterle (Finsterle GeoConsulting), Paul Black (Neptune)
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Use of Virtual Tracers in Repository Performance Assessment Modeling
1:20–1:40PM MST
Paul E. Mariner (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Dusty M. Brooks (Sandia), Rosie C. Leone (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura P. Swiler (Sandia)
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of FMD Model Choice for a Generic Crystalline Repository
1:40–2:00PM MST
Dusty Brooks (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia), Paul Mariner (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Rosie Leone (Sandia)
Effects of Discrete Fracture Network Modeling Choices on Repository Performance Characteristics
2:00–2:20PM MST
Mariah Smith (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia)
Validation of the Sampling Methodology of Statistical Fracture Network Realizations for Three-Dimensional Nuclide Transport Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Fumiko Yoshida (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiroyuki Umeki (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiromitsu Saegusa (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Kazuaki Mitsuyama (QJ Science), Hirokazu Takahashi (QJ Science), Wataru Haneishi (QJ Science), Hiroyasu Takase (QJ Science)
