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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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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 RPD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Student Assistant:
Charles Goodman
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Fidelity Sufficiency in Reactor Physics Modeling of Research Reactors with MCNP and Serpent
1:05–1:25PM EST
Ronald Daryll E. Gatchalian (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
Paper
SFR Support using the TRACE/PARCS Coupled Code System
1:25–1:45PM EST
Oscar Lastres (Purdue Univ.), Yunlin Xu (Purdue Univ.)
Investigating the AGN-201M Reactor's Unique Dominance Ratio
1:45–2:05PM EST
Mekiel Olguin (Univ. of New Mexico), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. of New Mexico), Forrest Brown (Univ. of New Mexico)
Single- and Multi-Physics Models of Advanced Reactors in the Virtual Test Bed
2:05–2:25PM EST
Bo Feng (ANL), Jun Fang (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL), April Novak (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Paolo Balestra (INL), David Reger (INL), Nicolas Martin (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
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