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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
Stefani Buster
Alternate Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
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Student Assistant:
Amanda Bachmann
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Impact of Potential Source Term Updates in DTRA's HPAC
4:25–4:45PM EST
Joshua Molgaard (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), Tyler Dant (Applied Research Assoc.)
Paper
Geometry Effects in the Transport Calculations of the Multiplicity Moments
4:45–5:05PM EST
Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
A Novel Nuclear Material Control Technique for Pebble Fueled Reactors
5:05–5:25PM EST
Sunil S. Chirayath (Texas A&M Univ.), Claudio A. Gariazzo (ANL), Raffaella Righetti (Texas A&M Univ.), Mohammad Naraghi (Texas A&M Univ.)
An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach using a Hopfield Network in Nuclear Security Applications
5:25–5:45PM EST
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimal Sensor Placement with Using Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Mutual Information
5:45–6:05PM EST
Siyao Gu (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)
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