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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Christian M. Petrie
Alternate Chair:
Matt Gibson
Session Organizer:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
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Development, Testing, and Validation of Fabry-Pérot Cavity Acoustic Sensors for Microreactor Applications
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Anthony Birri (ORNL), Daniel C. Sweeney (ORNL), Holden C. Hyer (ORNL), Christian M. Petrie (ORNL)
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SMRs I&C Associated Challenges: Case of Argentinian Design CAREM
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Ricardo Garcia (Tecnatom), Cecilia Laura Alberto (CNEA), Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom), Luis Rejas (Tecnatom)
EPRI Digital Systems Engineering Framework: A Modern Approach
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Matt Gibson (EPRI)
Planned Irradiation of IN-Pile Steady State Extreme Temperature Testbed
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Emily Hutchins (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Lawrence Heilbronn (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brandon Wilson (ORNL), N. Dianne Ezell (ORNL)
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