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ANS Winter Meeting – Technical Session Small-Scale Reactors for GNEP

November 15, 2006 By Rod Adams

The agenda for Day 2 of the ANS Winter Meeting included a wide variety of technical breakout sessions with papers being presented on topics as varied as “Multigroup Formulation of the “Correction” Hybrid Mont Carlo/Deterministic Transport Method” to “Optimization of Fission Product Identification Using Compton Suppression and Gamma-Gamma Coincidence” to “Integral Test and Analysis for DVI-Line Break SBLOCA with SNUF”. MEGO. (That was a favorite expression of a shipmate of mine back in the day – it stands for My Eyes Glaze Over – and it is what he said when someone entered into a jargon filled technical explanation of a topic that got lost in the explanation.)

I looked over the list of discussions and decided that “Small-Scale Reactors for GNEP-panel” looked to be right up my alley. (GNEP stands for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.)

The talks in that session included the following topics:

  • Nuclear Energy’s Role in Sustainable Development
  • SMR (Small Medium Reactor) Requirements and Technology Needs for GNEP
  • Nonproliferation Considerations and Issues for Global SMR Deployment
  • Licensing Considerations and Issues for Global SMR Deployment
  • Options for SMRs to Overcome Loss of Economies of Scale and Incorporate Increased Proliferation-Resistance and Security

I recorded the talks and plan to share the highlights as an episode on The Atomic Show.

(Geeky Aside: I bought myself a new “tool” for the conference – an 8GB iPod Nano with a Griffin TuneTalk Stereo microphone. Do not believe anyone – even an Apple Store Genius – who tries to tell you that the Nano cannot do voice recordings. This is a sweet set-up and you are going to be impressed with the quality of the meeting recordings once I have finished breaking them into logical sections.)

At the end of the day, there was a General Chair’s Special Session titled “Nonproliferation and Security” with some invited speakers that included Susan Eisenhower – President, Eisenhower Group, Inc. (and daughter of my hero, Ike), Laura Schmidt-Williams – Deputy Director, International Science and Technology Center, Moscow, Russia, Paula DeSutter – Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance, Scott Campbell, President, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness. I think there was one more speaker, but I neglected to jot down the name. If, by any remote chance, you happened to be there and have the name, I would appreciate it.

I have some notes from the session that I will compose into a more detailed comment or article for Atomic Insights. I really want to tell you about the discussion that I had with Ms. DeSutter after the session, but I am governed by the tyranny of the clock right now.

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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