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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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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
W. Neal Mann (The University of Texas at Austin)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Daniel Goldberg (American Nuclear Society)
Energy storage systems could be integrated with nuclear power plants to increase flexibility and potentially enhance revenues. This session will cover energy storage technologies that could couple to various coolant temperatures (medium- to high-temperature) or be integral to a plant's design. Energy storage classes include, but are not limited to, electrochemical batteries, mechanical compression/liquefaction of fluids, gravitational potential energy, heat storage materials (solids, liquids, gases; single- and multi-phase fluids), and power-to-X/synfuels.
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Base-Load Light-Water Reactors with Variable Electricity Using Crushed-Rock Heat Storage and Steam Peaking Plant with High-Efficiency Steam Injectors
C. Forsberg (MIT), T. Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Paper
System Efficiency and Dynamic Study of Ca(OH)2/CaO Chemical Heat Pump
Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Separating Nuclear Reactors from the Power Block with Heat Storage: A New Power Plant Design Option: Workshop Summary
Charles Forsberg (MIT), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
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