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DOE nuclear cleanup costs, schedule delays continue to rise, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management faces significant cost increases, schedule delays, and data management issues in completing nuclear waste cleanup projects, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Julie Jacobson
Alternate Chair:
Jenna Payne
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas
Please join us to listen and learn about student research related to the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program.
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Establishing the Relationship Between Reactor Design Choices and Cost Outcomes
3:15–3:35PM EST
Rowan M. Marchie (Univ. Michigan), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Constrained Bayesian Optimization to Design Critical Experiments for Advanced Reactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Michael G. Branco-Katcher (Oregon State), Daniel S. Siefman (LLNL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Multiphysics Modeling of a Heat Pipe Microreactor Using Serpent and OpenFOAM
3:55–4:15PM EST
Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Nathan Roskoff (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Tritium Diffusion Through Na-Montmorillonite
4:15–4:35PM EST
Matthew Riss (Clemson Univ.), Brian A. Powell (Clemson Univ.)
Discrete Element Simulation of Thermal-Fluidic Transport in a Packed Spherical Particle Bed
4:35–4:55PM EST
Andres Gomez (Purdue), Graham Wilson (ANL), Daniel Gould (ASRC Federal), Molly Ross (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
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