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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
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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