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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Preliminary Design Scoping for MITR-III
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Sara Hauptman (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT), Aaron Craft (INL), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Gordon Kohse (MIT), Lance Snead (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
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Direct Energy Conversion from Complex-Structured NLTPs Using TRIGA Reactor Pulses
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Austin Lo (GenAlpha Nuclear Technologies), William Charlton (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Application of OpenFOAM to Research Reactor Modelling: Validation Against the TRIGA Mark II Reactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
E. Cervi (Politecnico di Milano), K. Routsonis (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), V. Habiyaremye (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Development and Validation of a Three-Dimensional Griffin Model of the Advanced Test Reactor
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Mark D. DeHart (INL), Khang H.N. Nguyen (NCSU), Joshua T. Hanophy (INL), Yaqi Wang (INL)
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