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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|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Catherine M. Prat (*Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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An Overview of the Integrated Energy System Investigation of the Eastman Chemical Company Kingsport, Tennessee, Facility
Michael S. Greenwood (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Whitney Tharp (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mike Muhlheim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Bob Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Randy Belles (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mike Poore (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Riley Cumberland (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jordan Rader (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Askin G. Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Echo State Networks for Renewable Energy Forecasting
Kathryn D. Huff (University of Illinois), Sam Dotson (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Development of a Tool for Evaluating Nuclear Integrated Energy Systems Profitability For Existing Reactors
James Richards (University of Idaho), R. A. Borrelli (University of Idaho)
Low-Carbon Power for Government Installations using Nuclear Micro-Reactors
Michael Corradini (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Paul P. Wilson (University of Wisconsin - Madison), James Parke (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Antara Khadria (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Danjing Lei (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Ryan M. Dailey (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Hydrogen Co-Generation at a Nuclear Power Plant in a Regulated Market
Lane T. Knighton (Idaho National Laboratory), Daniel S. Wendt (Idaho National Laboratory), Cristian Rabiti (Idaho National Laboratory), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (Idaho National Laboratory)
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