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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Track Organizers:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
Alternate Chair:
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A Path Forward for Regulatory Acceptance of Combined Ion/Neutron Irradiation Data for Qualification
10:00–10:20AM CST
Stephen Taller (ORNL), Yiren Chen (ANL), Wei-Ying Chen (ANL), Rongjie Song (INL), Andrea Jokisaari (INL)
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Ashby Maps for Nuclear Applications: New Opportunities for Nuclear Materials Design
10:20–10:40AM CST
M.I. Brand (Univ. New South Wales), M. Moschetti (Univ. New South Wales), P. Hosemann (Univ. California, Berkeley), J.J. Kruzic (Univ. New South Wales), E.G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales), B. Gludovatz (Univ. New South Wales), P.A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales)
Design of Experiments for Qualifying Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processed Stainless Steel Components
10:40–11:00AM CST
Holden Hyer (ORNL), Josh Kendall (ORNL), David Collins (ORNL), Amir Ziabari (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL)
Effect of Carbon Concentration on the Creep Resistance and Tensile Properties of Castable Nanostructured Alloys
11:00–11:20AM CST
Emily Proehl (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Ying Yang (ORNL), Lizhen Tan (ORNL), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Radiation Tolerance of MX-Type Precipitates in Ferritic Martensitic Steels
11:20–11:40AM CST
K.G. Field (Univ. Michigan), T.M.K. Green (Univ. Michigan), K. Sun (Univ. Michigan), Robert Renfrow (Univ. Michigan), T. Graening (ORNL), W. Zhong (ORNL), E. Polselli (Univ. Michigan), L. Tan (ORNL), Y. Yang (ORNL)
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