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U.S. House discusses new nuclear reactors, permitting reform bills
Two U.S. House committees spent Wednesday broaching the subject of new nuclear reactors and moving forward several bills on nuclear permitting reform. The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s energy subcommittee held a hearing titled “Powering the Nuclear Renaissance: Accelerating U.S. Leadership in Advanced Nuclear Reactors.” Meanwhile, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced six nuclear permitting reform bills.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Harish Reddy Gadey
Alternate Chair:
Patrick Moosir
Session Organizer:
Michael Smith (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte)
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Progress in the Verification and Validation Efforts for START: A Spent Fuel Routing Tool
8:00–8:20AM EST
Harish R. Gadey (PNNL), Kacey D. McGee (PNNL), Patrick D. Royer (PNNL)
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Predicting Stress at Deformed Regions of SAVY-4000 Nuclear Material Storage Containers with an Experimentally Validated Finite Element Analysis Model
8:20–8:40AM EST
Joseph D. Hafen (LANL), Steven Lukow (LANL), Samrat Choudhury (Univ. Mississippi), Jonathan Gigax (LANL)
Scoping Analysis of Fuel Costs and Spent Fuel Volume for Small Pressurized Water Reactors
8:40–9:00AM EST
Assil Halimi (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Disposal MOX: A Combined Study of its Fabrication and Disposability
9:00–9:20AM EST
Jack Rolfe (Lancaster Univ.), Ian Robertson (Lancaster Univ.), Michael Bromley (Lancaster Univ.), Colin Boxall (Lancaster Univ.), Dave Goddard (National Nuclear Laboratory), Rosie Hibberd (Nuclear Waste Services)
Development of a Simple Improved Repository Risk Assessment Measure
9:20–9:40AM EST
Steven Krahn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Allen Croff (Vanderbilt Univ.), Irfan Ibrahim (Vanderbilt Univ.)