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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Tennessee
Session Chair:
Hitesh Bindra
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Pervasive penetration of renewable generation can cause instability in the energy infrastructure and thus require distributed and dispatchable backup clean energy generation and storage. For a stable distributed smart grid, nuclear power systems with integrated energy storage are needed. Many possible technology options exist for storing either the thermal energy from the nuclear plant or electricity from the turbine in the power cycle, each with advantages and disadvantages. The adoption of particular energy storage options is largely dependent upon the scale of energy generation, ease of integration, and the end-use. In addition to providing dispatchable electricity, other applications of energy storage systems include building heating-cooling, industrial process heat, charging electric vehicles, etc. This panel includes well-known experts in the field of energy storage and nuclear hybrid systems from industry, national laboratories, and academia to discuss the state of demonstration and development of energy storage technologies.
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