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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 OPD
Monday, June 14, 2021|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann
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Jay Bogardus (ANS)
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Prognostics of Operational Failures Based on Pattern Mining of Operators' Eye Movement during Nuclear Power Plant Operations
Jinding Xing (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Zhe Sun (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Pingbo Tang (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Ronald Laurids Boring (INL), Alper Yilmaz (Ohio State Univ.), George Edward Gibson Jr. (Arizona State Univ.)
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Replacing Liquid Fossil Fuels and Hydrocarbon Chemical Feedstocks With Liquid Biofuels Using Nuclear Heat and Hydrogen
C. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), B. Dale (Michigan State Univ.), D. Jones (North Carolina State University), L. M. Wendlt (INL)
The Transition from Full Electrical Power to Thermal Power Extraction to an Industrial Facility Using a Generic PWR Simulator
Stephen Hancock (INL)
Fuzzy Algorithm Modeling of Nuclear Energy Priority for Climate Change
Tae Ho Woo (Cyber Univ. of Korea), Kyung Bae Jang (Cyber Univ. of Korea), Chang Hyun Baek (Cyber Univ. of Korea)
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Performance Gain with Improved Method for Core Thermal Power Calculation
Silas Rogers (GSE TrueNorth), Frank Todd (GSE TrueNorth)
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