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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
E. A. Mogahed, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1079-1083
Fusion Power Reactors (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963757
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Loss of coolant accident (LOCA) analysis is performed for ARIES-ST. ARIES-ST is a fusion power plant design based on the spherical tokamak concept to serve as a commercial power plant. It is assumed that the plasma is immediately quenched at the onset of the LOCA and the chamber components begin to increase in temperature due to the afterheat generated. This analysis examines the thermal behavior of the in-vessel components to determine the maximum temperature reached and addresses various schemes of afterheat removal. The thermal behavior of the reactor following a LOCA is simulated using a transient two-dimensional finite element model.