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Advanced Reactors Technical Summit V & Technology Trailblazers Showcase at Texas A&M February 20-22, 2018

Advanced Reactors
Technical Summit V 
Technology Trailblazers 
Showcase at Texas A&M
February 20-22, 2018College Station, Texas

Eleven Advanced Nuclear Energy Trailblazers Highlight
Advanced Reactors Technical Summit V 
& Showcase at Texas A&M

February 20-22, 2018
*  George Bush Presidential Library
*  Legacy Club at Texas A&M's Kyle Field
*  The Stella Hotel

X-energy's Founder & CEO Dr. Kam Ghaffarian, 
TerraPower LLC's Dr. John Gilleland, Join 
Featured Trailblazer Presidents, 
CEOs and Chief Technology Officers




Dr. Kam Ghaffarian
Founder & CEO
X-energy
Dr. John Gilleland
Chief Technical Officer
TerraPower LLC

 
A "Who's Who" of leading U.S. advanced reactor developer trailblazers are confirmed to present at the fifth Advanced Reactors Technical Summit & Technology Trailblazers Showcase at Texas A&M in February.
 
The featured advanced nuclear energy industry trailblazers include:  
Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC (ARC); Elysium Industries; General Atomics; GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; High Bridge Energy Development; Hybrid Power Technologies; Muons, Inc.; NuScale Power; TerraPower; Terrestrial Energy; and X-energy. 

Along with Ghaffarian and Gilleland, presenters include:  NuScale Chairman & CEO John L. HopkinsTerrestrial Energy CEO Simon Irish;  Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO Donald Wolf; General Atomics Vice President for Nuclear Technologies and Materials Tina Back; High Bridge Energy Development President Philip Moor; Muons, Inc. President Rolland Johnson; Elysium Industries Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder Edward Pheil; and Hybrid Power Technologies, LLC President and CEO Michael Keller.
 
More on the Featured Advanced Nuclear Industry Trailblazers below. 
Featured Industry Trailblazers

Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC (ARC)ARC is developing an exportable, factory-produced, sodium-cooled, metal fueled, fast-reactor capable of producing 100 MWe. The ARC reactor is an advanced small modular reactor with a twenty-year refueling cycle.  Its design affords fixed fuel costs for 20+ years, offering safe, clean, affordable and proliferation-resistant nuclear power to energy markets in both the developed and the developing world.
 
Elysium IndustriesElysium is developing a unique Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor (MCSFR) that can provide base-load clean power and has the ability to consume spent nuclear fuel and weapons waste transforming it into useful energy.  The Elysium MCSFR will be built utilizing existing code-qualified materials and relies on natural processes.
 
General Atomics (GA)GA is developing the Energy Multiplier Module (EM²), a helium-cooled fast reactor designed as a modular, grid-capable power source that addresses four of the most challenging problems facing nuclear energy: economics, safety, waste, and nonproliferation.
 
GE Hitachi Nuclear EnergyGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's next evolution of sodium-cooled reactor technology is the PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular) reactor. PRISM is a reactor that uses liquid sodium as a coolant. This coolant allows the neutrons in the reactor to have a higher energy that drive fission of the transuranics, converting them into short-lived "fission products."
 
High Bridge Energy DevelopmentHigh Bridge Energy Development is dedicated to the commercial development of SMRs. High Bridge aims to license and construct two modified multi-purposed GEH PRISM reactors to serve as test reactors for the nation.
 
Hybrid Power TechnologiesHybrid Power is developing a 21st Century Fail-Safe Nuclear Hybrid Gas Reactor that use nuclear and fossil fuel sources. The hybrid-nuclear approach is a major technological breakthrough that is physically much smaller than today's nuclear plants, although the hybrid's power output is comparable to a large conventional nuclear plant.
 
Muons, IncMuons is developing an Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR), a new kind of nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. This multipurpose reactor design takes advantage of this new accelerator capability that includes an internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products. The waste stream from an ADSR is much smaller and vastly easier to manage than that from a conventional reactor.
 
NuScale PowerNuScale has designed an extraordinarily safe Integral Pressurized Water Reactor (IPWR) wherein each NuScale Power ModuleTM is a self-contained unit that operates independently within a multi-module configuration of up to 12 modules that are monitored and operated from a single control room. NuScale intends to commercialize power plants that are modular and scalable in 50 MWe (gross) increments. Using simplified, passive technology, NuScale's design reduces complexity, improves safety, enhances operability, and reduces risks.
 
TerraPower, LLCTerraPower has been leading the charge in the development of cutting-edge nuclear energy technologies that offer scalable, sustainable, safe and cost-competitive energy options. Through the development of the traveling wave reactor (TWR) program, a reactor technology capable of utilizing fuel made from depleted uranium, and the molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) project, TerraPower is setting new standards in the development of advanced nuclear energy systems.
  
Terrestrial EnergyTerrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) is a small modular design that employs advanced molten-salt technology to generate 190 MW of power (400MW of heat). Terrestrial Energy's IMSR® has received notice from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) that it has successfully completed the first phase of the CNSC's pre-licensing vendor design review. This represents the first regulatory opinion by a western nuclear regulator of a commercial advanced reactor power plant design.
 
X-energyX-energy is developing the Xe-100, a Pebble-Bed High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) that will allow nuclear energy to take a larger role in solving tomorrow's energy challenges. Each Xe-100 reactor generates approximately 76MWe. A standard plant consists of 4 reactors, allowing construction in increments up to approximately 300MWe. 
Confirmed Speakers (to date)

Hon. Bill Magwood
Nuclear Energy Agency
Mr. John L. Hopkins
NuScale Power

Hon. Jeffrey Merrifield
Pillsbury Winthrop, Shaw Pittman
Dr. Tina Back
General Atomics
Mr. Simon Irish
Terrestrial Energy
Dr. Kam Ghaffarian
X-energy
Dr. Rita Baranwal
INL GAIN
Mr. Donald Wolf
Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC
Dr. John Gilleland
TerraPower
Mr. Philip Moor
High Bridge Energy Development
Dr. Hussein Khalil
Argonne
Dr. Edward Pheil
Elysium Industries
Dr. Alan S. Icenhour
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Yassin A. Hassan
Texas A&M University
Dr. Rolland Johnson
Muons, Inc.
Mr. Michael Keller
Hybrid Power Technologies, LLC



Dr. Jean C. Ragusa
Texas A&M University
Mr. David Blee
USNIC


Advanced Reactors Summit V & Technology Showcase Sponsors

Summit Lead Sponsor


Summit Co-Sponsor
Technology and Innovation in Advanced Reactors

A Special Technical Summit Focused on
Advanced Reactors
&
Featuring a Career Fair with Texas A&M's
Department of Nuclear Engineering students

Under the auspices of

The U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council

Legacy Club at Texas A&M's Kyle Field
George Bush Presidential Library
The Stella Hotel 
Summit Trailblazer Sponsor


Contributing Sponsors




For more information on how to participate in the Advanced Reactor Summit V's Career Fair please contact Caleb Ward at caleb.ward@usnic.org or 202-332-8845.  
ADVANCE AGENDA
 
Tuesday, February 20 - Career Fair & Welcome Reception

The Legacy Club at Texas A&M's Kyle Field
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmCareer Fair
6:00 pm - 8:00 pmWelcome Reception
Wednesday, February 21 - Plenary & Trailblazer Awards Reception

The Stella Hotel at College Station 
8:00 am - 5:00 pmPlenary Session 
George Bush Presidential Library
6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTrailblazer Awards Reception
Thursday, February 22 - Plenary & TRIGA Reactor Tour

The Stella Hotel
8:00 am - 1:00 pmPlenary Session
Texas A&M's Nuclear Science Center
2:00 pm - 4:00 pmOptional tour of the the Nuclear Science Center's TRIGA Reactor at Texas A&M University

OVERVIEW
Now in its fifth year, the Advanced Reactors Summit V will take place at the world-renowned Texas A&M University after successive ground-breaking Summits at Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Summit V will continue its focus on showcasing technology developers and advancing solutions on the cost and deployment timeframe of advanced reactors, as well as practical ideas and concepts that have the potential of significantly improving advanced reactor design, deployment, and operations.
ADVANCE AGENDA TOPICS
  • Keynotes: 
    • Nuclear Energy Agency
    • U.S. Department of Energy
    • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    • Nuclear Energy Industry
    • National Laboratories  
  • Reports From Leading Advanced Reactor Technology Developers
  • Advanced Reactor Licensing Reform & Modernization
  • Progress On Overarching Issues: Capital Costs, O&M, Fuel Cycle Strategies, Licensing Timeframes, Demonstration And Deployment
  • Test Reactor, Prototypes And Demonstration Concepts 
  • Government / Private Sector Collaboration & Leading First Movers 
  • Supply Chain Development 
  • DOE, National Laboratory And Private-Sector Incubators, Including The Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN)
  • The Economic & Environmental Nexus For Advanced Reactors
  • The Administration And Congressional Landscape
  • U.S. And International Markets 
  • Moving Forward

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