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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
Technical Session
Thursday, November 11, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Matt Degonish (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
Robertas Alzbutas (Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas University of Technology)
Session Organizer:
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Simplified Adding and Retrieving Nuclear Data To/From LIDAR Models
12:40–1:10PM EST
Steven Prescott (INL), Michael Ziccarelli (INL), Eric Allen (Environmental Intellect)
Paper
Limit Surface Search Algorithm With Artificial Neural Network and Monte Carlo Dropout Uncertainty Quantification
1:10–1:40PM EST
Junyong Bae (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Jong Woo Park (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Deep Transformer Network for Time Series Classification: The NPP Safety Case
1:40–2:10PM EST
Bing Zha (Ohio State Univ.), Alessandro Vanni (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.), Alper Yilmaz (Ohio State Univ.)
IAEA Safety Report on Multi-Unit Probabilistic Safety Assessment
2:10–2:40PM EST
Shahen Poghosyan (IAEA), Ovidiu Coman (IAEA), Dennis Henneke (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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