3 papers
econ.GN2026
Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Nuclear Power Plant Cost Overruns and Implications for Contract Structuring
Christopher Forsyth, Levi M. Larsen, Ryan Spangler +6
Existing evidence on nuclear power plant construction suggests that individual stakeholders involved in project delivery are often not responsible for all of the cost overruns in t…
cs.NE2024
Surpassing legacy approaches to PWR core reload optimization with single-objective Reinforcement learning
Paul Seurin, Koroush Shirvan
Optimizing the fuel cycle cost through the optimization of nuclear reactor core loading patterns involves multiple objectives and constraints, leading to a vast number of candidate…
physics.app-ph2024
Cross-disciplinary Reactor-to-Repository Framework for Evaluating Spent Nuclear Fuel from Advanced Reactors
Haruko M. Wainwright, Chloe Christiaen, Milos Atz +4
This study presents a cross-disciplinary reactor-to-repository framework to compare different advanced reactors with respect to their spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The framework consis…