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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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FPoliSolutions demonstrates RISE, an RIPB systems engineering tool
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the October 3 meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speakers: Mike Mankosa, a project engineer at FPoliSolutions, and Cesare Frepoli, the company’s president, who together presented “Introduction to RISE: A Digital Framework for Maintaining a Risk-Informed Safety Case for Current and Next Generation Nuclear Power Plants.”
Watch the full webinar here.
Corey Misenheimer, Konor Frick, Stephen Terry, J. Michael Doster (NCSU), Shannon M. Bragg-Sitton (INL)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 431-440
Power maneuvers stemming from time-varying loads imposed on nuclear reactors from diurnal changes in demand and renewable intermittency can be detrimental to the life of the reactor. Temperature swings during power maneuvers result in thermal and mechanical stresses in fuel elements and other reactor components. Thermal Energy Storage (TES) reservoirs can be coupled to reactors to absorb these grid instabilities. Previous work has shown chilled-water storage can help shift cooling loads that contribute to the daily peak electric demand from on-peak to off-peak hours. The objective of this work is to evaluate a stratified chilled-water storage tank as a potential TES reservoir for a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) using absorption chillers for chilled-water production. Simulation results reveal absorption chiller performance is hindered when receiving steam from a tap on the low-pressure turbine. A better configuration involves integrating the absorption chillers into a flash vessel system that is thermally coupled to a sensible heat storage system. The sensible heat storage system maintains reactor thermal output at 100% and matches turbine output with demand while producing enough steam to power four large absorption chillers to charge a stratified chilled-water storage tank, which is used to offset cooling loads in an adjacent facility.