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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.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Lin Shao (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Andrew Hutton
Student Assistant:
Mark Johnson
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What the World Needs Now ... is More Neutrons
1:05–1:25PM EST
Charles D. Bowman (The ADNA Corporation)
Paper
Overview of Shielding Analyses for the VENUS Instrument
1:25–1:45PM EST
I.I. Popova (ORNL), F.X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo, EXPANSE, for the Second Target Station
1:45–2:05PM EST
Changwoo Do (ORNL), Rana Ashkar (Virginia Tech), Wei-Ren Chen (ORNL), Georg Ehlers (ORNL), Peter Falus (ILL), Antonio Faraone (NIST), Jason Gardner (ORNL), Reika Katsumata (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Bradley Olsen (MIT), Maikel C. Rheinstädter (McMaster University), Yangyang Wang (ORNL), Yang Z. (YZ) (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Influence of the Particle Beam and Accelerator Type on ADS Efficiency
2:05–2:25PM EST
M. Paraipan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), V. M. Javadova (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), S. I. Tyutyunnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
A Prototype Compact Accelerator Driven Neutron Source for Canada Supporting Medical and Scientific Applications
2:25–2:45PM EST
Dalini D. Maharaj (Univ. Windsor), Mina Abbaslou (TRIUMF), Sana Tabbassum (Purdue), Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF), Marco Marchetto (TRIUMF), Zin Tun (TVB Assoc.), Linda H. Nie (Purdue), Oliver Kester (TRIUMF), Drew Marquardt (Univ. Windsor), Robert Laxdal (TRIUMF)
Attachment — AccApp Presentation 2021
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