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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Nuclear new build procurement considerations
It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
Technical Session|Emerging Topics
Thursday, October 10, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM MDT|Room 4
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Assessment of Cloud-based Applications for Enabling a Scalable Risk-Informed Predictive Maintenance Strategy
10:15–10:35AM MDT
Cody Walker (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Uprating for Clean Hydrogen: Nuclear Energy's Role in Advancing a Hydrogen Economy in the Status Quo
10:35–10:55AM MDT
Levi M. Larsen (INL), Iza Lantgios (INL), Ronald Gonzales (INL), Eric Federline (MPR Associates)
Removal and Deactivation of Bond Sodium from Fast Reactor Blanket Materials
10:55–11:15AM MDT
Steven D. Herrmann (INL), Brian Preussner (INL), Elmar Eidelpes (INL)
Estimation of General Area Dose Rates during Closure Weld Operations on the DOE Standard Canister
11:15–11:35AM MDT
Evans Kitcher (INL)
Multiscale Multifidelity Modeling of Thermal Hydraulics Phenomena for Advanced Nuclear Reactors using MOOSE Open-Source Tools
11:35–11:55AM MDT
Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Peter German (INL), Vasileios Kyriakopoulos (Battelle Energy Alliance/INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Ramiro Freile (INL), Mengnan Li (INL), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Joshua E. Hansel (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Lise Charlot (INL)
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