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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, November 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Andrew Griffith (Retired)
Alternate Chairs:
Sven O. Bader (Orano Federal Services)
Jean-Francois Lucchini
Session Organizer:
The FCWMD has approximately 12 standards maintained by the FWDCC. Many of these standards are endorsed by the NRC and written to support the existing LWR fleet of reactors (e.g., ANS‐57.1‐1992 Design Requirements for LWR Fuel Handling Systems). However, with the significant effort under way to develop and deploy advanced reactor (AR) concepts, many of these standards may either not apply to these AR concepts or require exemptions to be utilized to allow for their application. This panel will discuss the FWDCC maintained standards and identify potential issues and needs to update them to allow for their application to ARs.
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