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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Bipartisan Fusion Energy Act pushes for regulatory clarity
Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) introduced the Fusion Energy Act (S. 4151) last month with a bipartisan group of cosponsors—John Cornyn (R., Texas), Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Todd Young (R., Ind.), and Patty Murray (D., Wash.). The legislation would codify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulatory authority over commercial fusion energy systems to streamline the creation of clear federal regulations that will support the development of commercial fusion power plants—and would require a report within one year on a study of risk- and performance-based, design-specific licensing frameworks for “mass-manufactured fusion machines.
“Congress must do everything in its power to ensure continued U.S. leadership in developing commercial fusion energy facilities,” said Padilla as he introduced the bill. “The Fusion Energy Act would provide regulatory certainty for investors as the NRC develops and streamlines frameworks for such facilities.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Chris Rees (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Demonstrating Distributed Fiber-Optic Temperature Sensors in a Simulated Gas-Cooled Reactor Outlet
3:15–3:35PM EST
Holden C. Hyer (ORNL), Dominic Giuliano (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
Paper
Characterization of Noise in Optical Fiber Measurements for Machine Learning Data Set Development
3:35–3:55PM EST
Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue), Taeseung Lee (ANL), David Catalan (Moltex Energy), Thanh Hua (ANL), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
“Evolve or Perish” also Applies to your I&C Room
3:55–4:15PM EST
Otto Fest (OTEK Corp.)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — OTEK'S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 2023
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