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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (U.S. Department of Energy)
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Staff Producer:
Dan Goldberg (American Nuclear Society)
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Cost/Risk-Decisioneering on Used Nuclear Fuel: Application on US UNF-management futures
Luc G. Van Den Durpel (Nuclear-21)
Paper
Data-based Optimization for Off-loading an SFP via a TAD Canister
Michael S. Smith (UNC Charlotte), Sven O. Bader (Orano USA), Brad Crotts (Orano Federal Services LLC), Yesim Sireli (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Tracking the Thermal History of Spent Fuel Canisters
Emilian Popov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kaushik Banerjee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
EPRI's Accelerated Corrosion Tests and Analysis of Pits and Blisters for BORAL® Coupons
Hatice Akkurt (Electric Power Research Institute)
Characterization of FeCrAl Cladding in the Entire Fuel Cycle.
Raul B. Rebak (GE Research), Andrew K. Hoffman (GE Research), Liang Yin (GE Research), Aida Amroussia (GE Research), Dan R. Lutz (GE Power)
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