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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Nagra publishes license applications for Swiss geologic repository
Nagra, Switzerland’s national cooperative for the disposal of radioactive waste, has published its general license applications for a deep geologic repository and separate spent fuel encapsulation plant, making the documents publicly available on a digital platform.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David S. Grabaskas
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Mechanical Aerosol Generation from Two-Phase Flow Pipe Breaks for Low Pressure FHR
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Kyoung M. Kang (Kairos Power), Quan Zhou (Kairos Power), Matthew Denman (Kairos Power), Timothy Drzewiecki (Kairos Power)
Paper
An Examination of Sodium Aerosol Behavior Based on Available Experimental Data
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)
Modeling Radionuclide Inventories in MSR Off-Gas Systems with Radiochemical Transport Analysis
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Samuel Walker (INL), Mauricio Tano (INL), Tingzhou Fei (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)
Implementation of the Sourdough Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Strategy in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design
2:00–2:20PM PDT
C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
Advancements in Depletion Modeling for Molten Salt Reactors Using OpenMC: A Case Study with the MSRE
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Lorenzo Chierici (Copenhagen Atomics), Erik Bergbäck Knudsen (Copenhagen Atomics)
Presented by Aslak Stubsgaard (Copenhagen Atomics)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Advancments in Depletion Modeling for Molten Salt Reactors using OpenMC: A Case Study with the MSRE
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