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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 Fuel Materials and Chemistry
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Richard Williamson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
David Andersson (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Core Wide PCI Screening Analysis
Joseph Y.R. Rashid (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Wenfeng Liu (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.)
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The Thermo-Mechanical Fracture of Chromium Film-Zirconium Substrates
Tamir Hasan (North Carolina State University), Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State University)
Kinetic model of incipient hydride formation in Zr clad under dynamic oxide growth conditions
Qianran Yu (University of California Los Angeles), Michael Reyes (University of California Los Angeles), Nachiket Shah (University of California Los Angeles), Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles)
Creep Wear and Gap Modeling for GTRF
Wei Lu (University of Michigan), Michael Thouless (University of Michigan)
3D Modeling of Missing Pellet Surface Defects with BISON
Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard L. Williamson (Idaho National Laboratory), D. S. Stafford (Southwestern Scientific Ltd. Co.), Stephen R. Novascone (Idaho National Laboratory), Jason Hales (Idaho National Laboratory), Giovanni Pastore (University of Tennessee)
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