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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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New work for old FLiBe? DOE considers reuse of molten salt reactor coolant
FLiBe—a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride—is not an off-the-shelf commodity. The Department of Energy suspects that researchers and reactor developers may have a use for the 2,000 kilograms of fluoride-based salt that once ran through the secondary coolant loop of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Educational Session|Panel|Supply Chain Challenges & Opportunities
Monday, August 8, 2022|1:30–3:00PM EDT|Banyan 1
Track Organizer:
Bill Fry (Duke Energy)
Knowledge Manager:
Nathan Choplin (Duke Energy)
As the nuclear industry struggles to be competitive in a market where fracking has led to historically low natural gas prices and politicians favor wind and solar, maintaining high capacity factors is essential to keeping plants operating. INPO has identified more than 600 of what they term “Noteworthy - Consequential” events related to faulty parts, that between 2018 and 2020 led to a loss of generation equivalent to shutting down the entire nuclear industry for 16 days. These are mostly commercial quality parts that have escaped the additional scrutiny of parts procured safety-related. The industry has responded with parts quality programs and initiatives that provide for additional testing on parts with the goal of minimizing parts related lost generation incidents.
This session will be a panel discussion with audience participation of various utility programs, their results, and how they relate to addressing INPO IER 21-4.
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