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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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 RPSD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Luke A. Stegeman (Kansas State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lawrence Heilbronn
Session Organizer:
Michael Lorne Fensin
Student Assistant:
Gary Garcia Montes
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Preliminary Material Property Characterization of Infused Conformal Coats for Shielding Application
1:05–1:25PM EST
Sam Hanson (NC State Univ.), Radek Pudelko (NC State Univ.), Robert B. Hayes (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Evaluating Uncertainty in Shielding Worth of Metal Oxide Infused Conformal Coatings Using MCNP
1:25–1:45PM EST
Radek Pudelko (NC State Univ.), Sam Hanson (NC State Univ.), Robert B. Hayes (NC State Univ.)
Preliminary Work Towards In-Situ Sample Specific Dose Response Calibration for EPR Dosimetry
1:45–2:05PM EST
Fatma M. Abdelrahman (NC State Univ.), Robert B. Hayes (NC State Univ.)
Retrieval and Characterization of Plutonium-Beryllium Source For New Irradiation Facility
2:05–2:25PM EST
Codey Olson (Univ. of Utah), William Bates (Univ. of Utah), Edward Cazalas (Univ. of Utah)
Evaluation of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Health Physics Research Reactor Operation Data for Criticality Accident Alarm System Benchmark Creation
2:25–2:45PM EST
Mathieu N. Dupont (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
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