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Tennessee senators call on Trump to “rescue TVA from itself”
Hagerty
Blackburn
In a strongly worded opinion piece published by Power Magazine on March 24, Tennessee Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty call for new leadership at the Tennessee Valley Authority to jumpstart its small modular reactor program.
The GOP lawmakers are looking to President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to overhaul TVA’s board of directors to drive America’s role in the nuclear renaissance. TVA is the first and only U.S. energy company to obtain an early site permit for a small modular reactor, but the utility has not progressed on physical deployment of a unit since the permit was awarded in 2019.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced Modeling Applications
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Fausto Francescini (Westinghouse)
Alternate Chair:
David Kropaczek (ORNL)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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Naval Nuclear Laboratory / CASL Collaborations
Brian N. Aviles (Naval Nuclear Laboratory - KAPL), Daniel J. Kelly (BMPC), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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VERA Benchmarking of PWR Startup and Steady State Operation
Gary Mangham (Westinghouse Electric Company LLC), Andrew Godfrey (ORNL), James Eller (ORNL)
Results of VERA Application to the AP1000® PWR Startup
Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), David A. Salazar (Westinghouse Electric Company), Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Watts Bar Nuclear Unit 2 Startup Experience
Andrew Godfrey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC)
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