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NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?
Craig Stover
Yes, but . . .
The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was part of the team that helped start the V.C. Summer project in 2008, and at that time we were trying to build a nuclear construction workforce from scratch. We learned a lot through that effort, and many of those lessons learned have since been studied, documented, and shared.
The nuclear industry is also benefiting from the wave of investment that started growing around 2020. Over the last five or six years, there has been a serious effort across the country to get ready for new nuclear builds. The U.S. government and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in new nuclear. Much of that work is happening before widespread commercial deployment contracts are signed. This is real, and we need to prepare.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
David Fukuyama (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Tara LaForce (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Machine Learning Surrogate Process Models for Efficient Performance Assessment of a Nuclear Waste Repository
1:00–1:20PM MST
Bert J. Debusschere (Sandia), D. Thomas Seidl (Sandia), Timothy M. Berg (Sandia), Kyung Won Chang (Sandia), Rosemary C. Leone (Sandia), Laura P. Swiler (Sandia), Paul E. Mariner (Sandia)
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Studying the Bentonite Buffer for HLW Geological Disposal: Large Scale Field Tests and the Corresponding Modeling
1:20–1:40PM MST
Liange Zheng (LBNL), Sangcheol Yoon (LBNL), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Jens Birkholzer (LBNL)
Experimental Study of Bentonite Buffer for Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste
1:40–2:00PM MST
Chun Chang (LBNL), Sharon Borglin (LBNL), Chunwei Chou (LBNL), LianGe Zheng (LBNL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL), Timothy J. Kneafsey (LBNL), Seiji Nakagawa (LBNL), Jens T. Birkholzer (LBNL)
Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling for a High Temperature Heating and Hydration Column Experiment
2:00–2:20PM MST
Sangcheol Yoon (LBNL), Sharon Borglin (LBNL), Chun Chang (LBNL), Chunwei Chou (LBNL), Liange Zheng (LBNL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
1-D Multiphase Simulation of Bentonite Saturation Using PFLOTRAN: Preliminary Results
2:20–2:40PM MST
Carlos F. Jové Colón (Sandia), Carlos M. Lopez (Sandia), Kristopher L. Kuhlman (Sandia)
