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Irvine, California | June 23-25, 2026
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The 2026 ETAP Nuclear Utility Users Conference (NUUC) offers a technical forum for the Nuclear Utility Users Group on the modeling and analysis of power systems that is of specific interest to you as a Nuclear Utility professional. This year’s NUUC conference will be held at the ETAP Learning Center in Irvine, California (17 Goodyear, Irvine, CA 92618)
The ETAP Nuclear Utility Users Group has been established to create a discussion platform between the software vendor, ETAP® / ŷAƬ, Inc. (OTI), and their clients using the ETAP software in the support of activities for nuclear power generating stations.
The purpose of the ETAP Nuclear Utility User Conference is to provide a discussion platform for its members to share and discuss items related to ETAP and the nuclear power industry.
The NUUC event is free and registration is required.
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Meetings/Conferences
Provide a discussion platform for its members related to ETAP solutions for the nuclear power industry
Evaluate and review the latest ETAP enhancements
Encourage the exchange of member experiences and ideas on the use of ETAP
Collaborate on recommendations for future enhancements
Address issues or deficiencies in the software discovered from user evaluation
Provide consolidated & prioritized feedback to ETAP from members' practical operating experiences in the nuclear power industry
Share techniques and methods used in analyzing the auxiliary systems of nuclear power plants
TVA Nuclear
(423) 751-7697
pocooper@tva.gov
Energy Northwest
(509) 377-8611
dvdearing@energy-northwest.com
Enercon
(770) 590-2159
PFAHIM@ENERCON.COM
Nuclear plants in the United States are governed by federal regulations requiring that the electrical power system provide sufficient capacity and capability to the nuclear plant. As part of this analysis, traditional approaches to manually perform single motor start calculations can be tedious and time-consuming. Also, the manual evaluation of the data can easily introduce errors. This presentation takes a closer look at degraded voltage relays (DVRS) and an approach to simulation used by the TVA that is holistic, using ETAP to easily combine the study cases, the revisions, and the configurations into repeatable studies. The demonstration includes the use of an efficient solution using Python code with ETAP to run the studies and evaluate the resultant data.