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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|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Scott Richards (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Eva E. Davidson
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A Study of Fuel Choice Effects when Transitioning to a Closed Fuel Cycle
1:30–1:50PM PDT
S. Richards (ANL), T. Kim (ANL)
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3D Full Core Depletion Analysis Using BSOLVE+MCNP6 Analysis of the Washington State University Reactor
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Glenn E. Sjoden (Univ. Utah), C. Corey Hines (Washington State)
Thermal Analysis of the Sirius-3 Nuclear Propulsion Fuel Experiments
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Mustafa K. Jaradat (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
Progress on Transport and Transmutation Analysis of Proton Beam Irradiating Long-Lived Spent Nuclear Waste
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Charlotte I. Wickert (MIT), Grigor Tukharyan (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Areg Danagoulian (MIT), Zachary Hartwig (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Long Time Scale Multiphysics Simulation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister in MOOSE
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Derek Gaston (INL)
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