2011 Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Technical Exchange and Regulatory Conference – Technical Exchange Presentation Materials

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• Technical Presentations
• Bios

Technical Presentations

• Interfaces Between Storage & Transportation Casks – Panel on High Burnup Fuel – Industry's View on Cladding: Albert Machiels, Senior Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Progress and Results of NRC's Cladding Programs: R. E. Einziger, Ph.D., Senior Materials Scientist, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, USNRC
• Achieving Moderator Exclusion for Transportation: D. Keith Morton, Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Some Thoughts On and Considerations About Moderator Exclusion: Charles W. Pennington, NAC International
• Moderator Exclusion: John Vera, Ph.D., Structural Engineer, NMSS/SFST/SMMB
• Interfaces Between Storage & Transportation Casks – Panel on High Burnup Fuel – Industry's View on Spent Fuel Reconfiguration: Albert Machiels, Senior Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Fuel Reconfiguration – Implications to Criticality and Radiation Safety: David Tang, PhD, Sr. Structural Engineer, Structural Mechanics & Materials Branch; Zhian Li, PhD, Sr. Criticality/Shielding Engineer, Criticality, Shielding & Dose Assessment Branch
• Aging Management in Storage and Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel: R. E. Einziger, Ph.D., Senior Materials Scientist, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, USNRC
• Aging Management Program: James Connell, Maine Yankee Atomic Power
• 10 CFR Parts 71 & 72 Criticality Safety of Spent Fuel: Andrew Barto, Nuclear Engineer – CSDAB
• Burnup Credit and Soluble Boron Credit: Prakash Narayanan, Nuclear Analysis Manager, Transnuclear, Inc.
• An Alternate Approach Towards Addressing the Technical Issues for Long-Term On-Site Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel: Adam H. Levin, Exelon Generation Company, LLC
• Retrievability: Earl P. Easton, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, USNRC
• Efforts on SCC of Spent Fuel Canisters in Marine Environments in RIRP and ESCP: Keith Waldrop – EPRI; Bill Bracey – Transnuclear; Marc Nichol – NEI
• SFST Staff's Perspective on Status of ISFSIs at North Anna Nuclear Power Plant after the Seismic Event of August 23, 2011: Bhasker (Bob) P. Tripathi, P. E., F. ASCE, Senior Structural Engineer, NMSS/DSFST, USNRC
• The Possible Influence of ISFSI Pad Flexibility on the Sliding Response of Casks at North Anna due to the Earthquake of August 23, 2011: Gordon S. Bjorkman, Jr., Senior Technical Advisor, Structural Mechanics Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Division, USNRC
• Update on PWR Fuel Top Nozzle Stress Corrosion Cracking Implications for 10 CFR 72 and 71: Brian Gutherman – NEI
• Proposed Methodology for Freestanding Stack-Up Analysis: Chuck Bullard, Holtec International
• Stack-up Analysis, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (CPNPP): Bruce F. Henley, PE &PMP, Project Manager, Luminant Power
• Discussion for Seismic Stack Up: Mike Yaksh, NAC International
• Methodologies Acceptable to the Staff for Performing Seismic Stability Analyses of a Stack-up Configuration within a 10 CFR Part 50 Facility: Gordon S. Bjorkman, Jr., Senior Technical Advisor, Structural Mechanics, Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Division, USNRC

Bios

• Biographies of the Panelists for the Panel on High Burnup Fuel
• Biographies of the Panelists for the Panel on Part 71/72 Interface
• Biographies of the Panelists for the Panel on Seismic Issues for Dry Cask Storage Systems and Industry Update on Existing Technical Issues
• Biographies of the Panelists for the Panel on Stack-Up Analysis