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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting (NCSD 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Laguna A
Session Chairs:
William J. Marshall (ORNL)
Jennifer L. Alwin
Session Organizer:
Theresa E. Cutler
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Expansion of the ORNL VALID Library
W.J. Marshall (ORNL), M.N. Dupont (ORNL), T.M. Greene (ORNL), A. Lang (ORNL), A.M. Shaw (ORNL), J.B. Clarity (PNNL), E.M. Saylor (ORNL)
Paper
A Comparison of Sensitivity/Uncertainty-Based Upper Subcritical Limit Estimates
Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Robert D. Busch (Univ. New Mexico), Forrest B. Brown (Univ. New Mexico), Shawn J. Henderson (Sandia), John A. Miller (Sandia)
Sensitivity/Uncertainty Comparison Study Involving IRSN, LANL, and ORNL Tools to Support Validation
Jennifer Alwin (LANL), Robert Little (LANL), Robbie Macquigg (LANL), Michael Rising (LANL), Nicolas Leclaire (IRSN), Frederic Fernex (IRSN), Luiz Leal (IRSN), Ellen Saylor (ORNL), Justin Clarity (ORNL), B.J. Marshall (ORNL), Kristina Spencer (INL)
A New IRSN Tool for Nuclear Data Bias Assessment: MACSENS V3.0 GLLSM Module
Frederic Fernex (IRSN)
Presented by Nicolas Leclaire (IRSN)
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