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Materials Science & Technology
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Assembly
Session Chair:
Andrew G. Sowder
Alternate Chair:
Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Session Organizer:
Arnold Lumsdaine
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Public-Private Partnerships to Address Supply Chain Challenges for the Commercialization of Fusion Energy
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Paper
Updated Owner-Operator Requirements for Fusion Energy to Inform and Enable Technology Development and Commercialization
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Diana Grandas (EPRI), Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
Technology Transfer and Public Private Collaboration
10:50–11:10AM CDT
H. J. Lewtas (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Abdallah (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Borini (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Perez-Crespillo (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Young (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), T. Bestwick (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Sensitivity and Reliability Analysis for Reliability-Based Design Optimisation of EU-DEMO-like Designs
11:10–11:30AM CDT
Jonathan Maddock (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
The SPARC Plant Control Architecture: Leveraging Modern Industrial Automation Technology to Commercialize Fusion
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Max Kleiman-Lynch (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Dominic Francia (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Anders Oberg (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Will Davis (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
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