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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Bulletin article argues for more certainty in advanced reactor waste management
A recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article cautions that uncertainty regarding the management of wastes generated by small and advanced reactors could drive up costs, making them uncompetitive with existing light water reactor technology.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Open-Source Computational Model of a Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
3:15–3:35PM MST
Harrison Reisinger (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nathaniel Howard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maxwell Wagner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Peyton Mann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Molten Salt Reactor Modeling in SCALE: Effects of Multigroup Libraries on Depletion Analysis
3:35–3:55PM MST
Christopher E. Bayne (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
MSR Reactivity, Power, and Inventory Simulations with SCALE
3:55–4:15PM MST
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Austin Lo (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Parametric Study of the Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Core
4:15–4:35PM MST
Seda Yilmaz Kaygisiz (Purdue), Shripad Revankar (Purdue)
MSRE Transient Benchmark Development and Evaluation: NEUP Project Updates
4:35–4:55PM MST
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Benjamin Betzler (ORNL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Kurt Harris (Flibe Energy)
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