Navigating Economies of Scale and Multiples for Nuclear-Powered Data Centers and Other Applications with High Service Availability Needs

BN Hanna, A Abou-Jaoude, N Guaita, P Talbot… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nuclear energy is increasingly being considered for such targeted energy applications as
data centers in light of their high capacity factors and low carbon emissions. This paper …

Assessment of Technoeconomic Opportunities in Automation for Nuclear Microreactors

I Naranjo de Candido, A Al Rashdan… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Achieving full decarbonization of all economic sectors remains a challenge, especially in
niche markets. For example, remote communities and industrial or mining activities …

[HTML][HTML] Uranium-zirconium hydride nuclear fuel performance in the NaK-cooled MARVEL microreactor

JA Evans, RT Sweet, PG Medvedev, AR Wagner… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Microreactor Applications Research Validation and EvaLuation (MARVEL)
Project is producing a high temperature NaK-cooled nuclear reactor test bed at the Idaho …

National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) 2024 annual meeting: advanced and small modular nuclear power reactors

WE Kennedy, RA Meserve, KA Higley… - Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 25–26 March 2023, the US National Council on Radiation Protection and
Measurements (NCRP) held its 2024 annual meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The …

Optimizing Hydride Stability in U-ZrHx Nuclear Fuel: The “Goldilocks Radius”

JA Evans, C Parisi - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Nuclear-powered microreactors show great promise for opening new nuclear energy
markets due to the flexibility offered by their rapid/streamlined in-factory fabrication …

MARVEL Utilization Plan

A Abou-Jaoude, MW Patterson - 2024 - osti.gov
This report provides a high-level overview of the utilization plan for the MARVEL
microreactor. The main focus is on discussing testing and application-demonstration …

Quantifying Capital Cost Reduction Pathways for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

The framework developed in this study is provided both as an excel sheet (link:
https://github. com/accert-dev/ACCERT/tree/main/excel_framework) and a Python (Jupyter) …

Configurations of Commercial Advanced Nuclear-Maritime Applications

M Dowling, SH Mukhi, A Abou Jaoude, LM Larsen - 2023 - osti.gov
The primary objective of this report is to develop models, provided in Section 6, that will help
both the nuclear and maritime industries better understand the matrix of technology and …

Feasibility Study of Using Nuclear Batteries in Decentralized Hydrogen Production

E Germonpré - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
Nuclear batteries (NBs) are a class of factory-fabricated, autonomously operated
microreactors that have the potential to form an extremely versatile clean energy platform …

Technoeconomic Evaluation of Microreactor Using Detailed Bottom-up Estimate

BN Hanna, RG Gonzaga de Oliveira… - 2024 - osti.gov
Microreactors are a novel class of nuclear reactors that are expected to be factory produced,
transportable, and self-regulating. They are expected to be several orders of magnitude …