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 Light Water Reactor Sustainability Newsletter – Issue 37, June 2023
This issue of the newsletter features an article on Integrated Operations for Nuclear (ION). ION achieves lower operation and maintenance costs by deploying digital technology and business process innovations.
  
Light Water Reactor Sustainability Newsletter – Issue 36, November 2022
This issue of the newsletter features an article on Machine Intelligence for Review and Analysis of Condition Logs and Entries (MIRACLE) is an artificial intelligence tool that automates condition report handling.
  
Light Water Reactor Sustainability Newsletter – Issue 35, June 2022
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Progress in Flexible Thermal and Electrical Power Dispatch. As much as 88% of the energy used by industry is heat and over 50% of this heat can be supplied by LWRs for combined heat and power duties.
  
Light Water Reactor Sustainability Newsletter – Issue 34, March 2022
This issue of the newsletter features an article on Predicting Fatigue in Reactor Components using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Computational Mechanics. Effects of the environment on the fatigue resistance of materials used in operating PWR and BWR plants require an assessment of environmentally assisted fatigue under extended service conditions.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features an article in remembrance of Dr. Peter Lyons.
  
LWRS Newsletter Issue 32 - December 2020
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Risk Analysis and Virtual ENviroment (RAVEN) team recently released version 2.0 of the RAVEN software.
  
LWRS Newsletter Issue 31 - July 2020
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Development of the LWRS Program Innovation Portal to Support Nuclear Innovation.
  
LWRS Newsletter Issue 30
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Validation of Risk-Informed Tools and Methods: NEUTRINO Flooding Analysis Tool.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Structural Health Monitoring to Automate Monitoring and Condition-Based Inspection of Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Plants.
  
Light Water Reactor Sustainability Newsletter – Issue 28, March 2019
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the Stakeholder Engagement Review Meeting, and a technical article on Compact Digital Modernization - Enabling Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Maintenance Cost Benefits.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features an article on Terry Turbopump Expanded Operating Brand Research and a technical article on Models to Support Industry Efforts in the Implementation of Severe Accident Water Management.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features an article on the new LWRS Program Technical Integration Office Deputy Director and features a technical article on Operator Studies on Overview Screens.
  
LWRS Newsletter Dec 2017 Issue 25
This issue of the newsletter features an article on the new LWRS Program Federal Program Director and Technical Integration Office Director and features a technical article on Research and Development for Control Room Modernization.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on LWRS Program Human Systems Simulation Laboratory featured in American Nuclear Society.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on The Prediction of Long-Term Thermal Aging in Cast Austenitic Stainless.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Validating Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Codes for Flooding Applications.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Modeling of the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling Response to Beyond Design Basis Operation.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on A Demonstration of Tools and Methods Applied to Large Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident and Fuels Analysis for Pressurized Water Reactors.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Reactor Safety Gap Evaluation of Accident Tolerant Components and Severe Accident Analysis.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Industry Application: Flooding Analysis using the Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization Methodology.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Development of the Expanded Materials Degradation Assessment for Prioritizing Research in Support of Subsequent License Renewal.
  
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This issue of the newsletter introduces a new program pathway lead for the Safety Technologies Pathway and features a technical article on Informing Materials Decisions and Decisions for Extended Operations.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Controlling Thermal Hydraulics Codes using RAVEN.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques for Nuclear Power Plant Concrete Structures.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Demonstration of RELAP-7 Capabilities Via Application to a Simplified Boiling Water Reactor Extended Station Blackout.
  
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This issue of the newsletter features a technical article on Evaluating the Effects of Irradiation on Concrete at Extended Lifetimes.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features a technical article on A Proof of Concept: Grizzly, an LWRS Program Materials Aging Simulation Tool.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features a technical article on Life-Cycle Prognostics for the LWRS Program.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features a technical article on Current and On-going Cable Aging Research.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features a brief introduction of all the LWRS Program Managers: the LWRS Federal Program Manager, the Technical Integration Office, and the Pathway Leads.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features a technical article on the Development and Characterization of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cladding.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features an article from the new Director of the LWRS Technical Integration Office, Kathy McCarthy, discussing changes to the LWRS program driven by federal budget constraints.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter includes a discussion about harvesting materials from the decommissioned Zion 1 and 2 Nuclear Power Plants.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter includes information about the Fukushima Accident in March 2011, discussion about advanced nuclear fuel using silicon carbide cladding to provide large safety margins.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter features an article from John Gaertner from the Electronic Power Research Institute exploring how EPRI and LWRS are teaming up to sustain high performance of existing plants for the long term.
  
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This issue of the LWRS Newsletter includes an article from Rebecca Smith-Kevern, Director of the Office of Light Water Reactor Technologies, about Federal Government support of the continued operation of existing nuclear power plants.
  
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The first issue of the LWRS Newsletter includes an introduction to the LWRS program with articles from Rich Reister, Federal Program Director, and Ronaldo Szilard, LWRS Program Technical Integration Office Director.