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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 THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Subash L. Sharma
Alternate Chair:
Khaled Talaat (Univ. of New Mexico)
Session Organizer:
Dillon R. Shaver
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Assessment of Post-Accident Particle Agglomeration in an iPWR Containment Vessel
3:10–3:30PM EST
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Paper
An Evaluation of Turbulent Penetration Length in the APR1000 Surge Line
3:30–3:50PM EST
Younglong Lee (KEPCO Engineering and Construction), Kun Woo Yi (KEPCO Engineering and Construction), Kyong In Ju (KEPCO Engineering and Construction)
A Numerical Verification of Conjugate Heat Transfer and Thermal Radiation Solvers
3:50–4:10PM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL)
Sensitivity Study to Investigate the Influence of Turbulence Closure Models on Estimated Shear Stresses on Rough Specimens Exposed to Flowing Molten Lead
4:10–4:30PM EST
Khaled Talaat (Univ. of New Mexico), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. of New Mexico)
Simulations of the Scaled Reactor Cavity Cooling System Experimental Facility with RELAP5/SCDAPSIM System Code
4:30–4:50PM EST
Mustafa Pehlivan (Texas A&M Univ.), Alessandro Vanni (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
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