MEETING HANDOUTS
Event: Nuclear Everywhere? How new technologies, regulations and policies may finally make the use of nuclear energy mainstream and ubiquitous
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 09:00 to Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 12:30
Location: MIT Campus, Building 34, Room 101 (50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)
Map: Symposium Map - QR Code (Enter 34 in search bar)
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
8:30-9:00 – CHECK-IN (Building 34-101 Lobby)
9:00-9:20 – Greetings
- Ben Forget, Associate Dept. Head, Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
- Bob Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative
9:20-9:50 – Symposium Intro & Objectives
- Jacopo Buongiorno, Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES), MIT
KEYNOTE
9:50-10:10 – Will SMRs succeed? Requirements for new nuclear technologies in the market place
- Maria Korsnick, President and Chief Executive Officer, NEI
SESSION 1: New Markets and Applications
Chair: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT
- 10:10-10:30 – Nuclear hydrogen is already here (Ugi Otgonbaatar, Director of Technology Strategy, Constellation)
- 10:30-10:50 – Nuclear biofuels: a potential game changer (Charles Forsberg, Principal Research Scientist, MIT)
10:50-11:10 – COFFEE BREAK
11:10-12:30 – Nuclear energy comes to campus. A panel-style discussion on decarbonization of college campuses and technology microreactors.
Chair: Lance Snead, Director of Strategic Development, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, MIT
- Panelists:
- Jean Paul Allain, Head, Nuclear Engineering Dept., Penn State University
- Seungjin Kim, Head, Nuclear Engineering Dept., Purdue University
- Rusty Towell, Professor, Engineering and Physics Dept. and Director, NEXT Lab, Abilene Christian University
- Caleb Brooks, Associate Professor of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, UIUC
- Yasir Arafat, MARVEL Chief Designer, Idaho National Laboratory
- Janine Helwig, Director of Utilities, MIT
LUNCH
12:30-1:30 – "The Kärnfull Way – Lessons learned from the Nordics"
- Speaker: John Ahlberg, Founder, Kärnfull Group
SESSION 2: Enabling Technologies
Chair: Koroush Shirvan, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
- 1:30-1:50 – Advanced Manufacturing, Passive Safety Systems, Compact heat exchangers, state-of-the-art BOP (Koroush Shirvan, MIT)
- 1:50-2:10 – Advanced Fuels and Moderators (Ellen Cerreta, Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- 2:10-2:30 – Life cycle assessment of graphite including disposal (Lance Snead, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, MIT)
2:30-2:50 – COFFEE BREAK
- 2:50-3:10 – 2D and 3D seismic isolation of buildings and equipment (Andrew Whittaker, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Buffalo)
- 3:10-3:30 – Technology synergies with fusion (Steve Zinkle, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
4:15-5:30 – MIT REACTOR TOUR AND SIMULATOR
BANQUET DINNER at Samberg Center
6:00-9:30 – "Re-Establishing U. S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy"
Speaker: Rian Bahran, Assistant Director, Nuclear Technology & Strategy, White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy (OSTP)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
SESSION 3: Regulations, Policy and Geopolitical Context
9:00-10:45 – Is the US Government doing enough to enable a substantial expansion of the domestic nuclear industry? A panel-style discussion on nuclear R&D, regulations and export.
Chair: Lin-wen Hu, Senior Scientist, Nuclear Reactor Lab, MIT
- Panelists:
- Alison Hahn, Director for Nuclear Reactor Deployment, Office of Nuclear Energy, US Department of Energy
- Jeff Chamberlin, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of Material Management and Minimization, NNSA
- John Kotek, Senior Vice President, Policy Development and Public Affairs, NEI
- Rita Baranwal, Chief Technology Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company
- Edward Blandford, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Kairos Power
10:45-11:00 – COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 – Fuel and waste: where do we stand? A panel-style discussion on HALEU, new fuel forms and HLW management for existing and new nuclear reactors
Chair: Haruko Wainwright, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
- Panelists:
- Monica Regalbuto, Director, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Strategy, Idaho National Laboratory
- David Sassani, National Technical Director, Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technlogy, Sandia National Laboratories
- Jose Reyes, Chief Technology Officer, NuScale
- Bret van den Akker, Director of Fuel Cycle Innovation, USNC
- Jorge Narvaez, General Engineer, Office of Integrated Waste Management, US Department of Energy
12:30 – Adjourn
