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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
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Robb Stewart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alternate Chair:
Temi Adeyeye (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Student Assistant:
Zayed Ahmed
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Comparative Reliability Study on Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Integrated Energy Systems
1:05–1:25PM EST
Samantha Sabatino (ORNL), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Paper
Modeling of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage
1:25–1:45PM EST
Amey Shigrekar (INL), Trevor Casper (Univ. of Idaho), Richard Christensen (Univ. of Idaho)
Attachment — Supplemental Summary with Updated Figures
Modeling a Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage Using Optimal Dispatch and SAM
1:45–2:05PM EST
Gabriel J. Soto (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Una Baker (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian White (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Mike Wagner (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Experimental Investigation of Chemical Heat Pumps Using Composite Pellets for Temperature Augmentation
2:05–2:25PM EST
Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho)
Dynamic Model of Absorption Cycle for Chemical-Absorption Heat Pump for Process Heating Applications
2:25–2:45PM EST
Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.)
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