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  The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series on May 2.
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Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (FHR) Using British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) Geometry and Refueling Technology

Charles Forsberg (MIT), Dean Wang (Univ of Massachusetts Lowell), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ of Cambridge), Brain Mays (Framatome), Geoff Parks (Cambridge Univ), Carolyn Coyle (MIT), Maolong Liu (Univ of New Mexico)

Proceedings | Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (2018 PBNC) | San Francisco, CA, September 30-October 4, 2018 | Pages 456-467