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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 ETWDD
Friday, December 3, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
John Gilligan (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Needle Probe Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity of Reference Liquids
3:10–3:30PM EST
Brian Merritt (Brigham Young Univ.), Michael Seneca (Brigham Young Univ.), Troy Munro (Brigham Young Univ.)
Paper
Defect Classification in Simulated Pulsed Thermal Tomography Images Using Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network
3:30–3:50PM EST
Victoria Ankel (ANL), Dzmitry Shribak (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Autonomous Fault Detection for Microreactor Operations - Looking Ahead
3:50–4:10PM EST
Mario Mendoza (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
History and Future of Adaptive Mesh Refinement in Nuclear Engineering for Increased Fidelity and Computational Efficiency
4:10–4:30PM EST
Kristin Stolte (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
Improved Point Kinetic Parameters Generation for Pebble Bed Reactor Transient Simulation Using NEAMS Tools
4:30–4:50PM EST
David Reger (Penn State Univ.), Paolo Balestra (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.)
Fast Neutron Computed Tomography Station at The Ohio State University Research Reactor
4:50–5:10PM EST
Matthew Bisbee (Ohio State Univ.), Ibrahim Oksuz (Ohio State Univ.), Matthew VanZile (Ohio State Univ.), Lei Cao (Ohio State Univ.)
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