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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Subgroup Resonance Self-Shielding Method with Two-Term Functionalization for VERA-MPACT
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL)
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Dancoff-Based Wigner-Seitz Approximation for the Embedded Self-Shielding Method in SCALE/Polaris
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Matthew. A. Jessee (ORNL), Andrew M. Holcomb (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Uncertainty Propagation for the Fission Matrix Method for the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Maximiliano Dalinger (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), William Walters (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State)
Development of an Analytical Fixed Source Solver for the 1D Multigroup SN Equations
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Jilang Miao (Penn State), Miaomiao Jin (Penn State)
3DBF -- A Diffusion Theory Code for Fast Reactor Calculations
4:35–4:45PM PDT
Randolph Schwarz (PNNL), David Wootan (PNNL), Dion Sunderland (PNNL), Ron Omberg (PNNL)
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