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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Proposed FY 2027 DOE, NRC budgets ask for less
The White House is requesting $1.5 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy in the fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, about 9 percent less than the previous year.
The request from the Trump administration is one of several associated with nuclear energy in the proposal, which was released Friday. Congress still must review and vote on the budget.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Dennis W. Henneke
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Session Organizer:
Matthew R. Denman
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Comparison of Point Kinetics and Spatial Kinetics Models for the Generic Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (gFHR)
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Jonathan L. Barthle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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LES at Low Richardson Number to investigate Thermal Stratification in SFRs Upper Plenums
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Theodore Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), L.B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Modeling Improvements for the Transition to Natural Circulation
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Rachel A. Thomas (ANL), Daniel J. O'Grady (ANL), Thomas H. Fanning (ANL), Acacia J. Brunett (ANL)
Automated Multiphysics Evaluation Model Assessment and Determination of Thermal-Hydraulic Safety Margins
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Clyde Huibregtse (Oklo), Amrit Patel (Oklo), Patrick Everett (Oklo)
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