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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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Reboot: Nuclear needs a success . . . anywhere
The media have gleefully resurrected the language of a past nuclear renaissance. Beyond the hype and PR, many people in the nuclear community are taking a more measured view of conditions that could lead to new construction: data center demand, the proliferation of new reactor designs and start-ups, and the sudden ascendance of nuclear energy as the power source everyone wants—or wants to talk about.
Once built, large nuclear reactors can provide clean power for at least 80 years—outlasting 10 to 20 presidential administrations. Smaller reactors can provide heat and power outputs tailored to an end user’s needs. With all the new attention, are we any closer to getting past persistent supply chain and workforce issues and building these new plants? And what will the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president mean for nuclear?
As usual, there are more questions than answers, and most come down to money. Several developers are engaging with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or have already applied for a license, certification, or permit. But designs without paying customers won’t get built. So where are the customers, and what will it take for them to commit?
Ziad H. Kodah, Samuel H. Levine
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 3 | June 1983 | Pages 487-495
Technical Paper | New Directions in Nuclear Energy with Emphasis on Fuel Cycles / Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33173
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Sets of basic poison depletion curves have been computed and used with a linear and a nonlinear program to match as closely as possible a required optimized fuel assembly depletion profile. The technique is applied to the fuel assembly design of the Three Mile Island-Unit One reactor wherein either solid poison or annular poison rods are used to contain burnable poisons (BPs). These BPs are either in the form of fine particles or spheroids uniformally distributed in the BP rods. The optimization technique selects the best basic depletion curves to provide an optimum fit to the designed fuel assembly depletion profile. The basic poison depletion curves are nonorthogonal and not complete. Thus, the best fit is not exact because the desired depletion profile requires sudden changes that cannot be attained by the depletion of the BPs.
