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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm H
Session Chair:
Dave Grabaskas (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Rachel Thomas (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Mauricio E. Tano (INL)
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Assessment of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Using the NACIE-UP Experimental Facility
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Daniel J. O'Grady (ANL), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Rachel Thomas (ANL)
Paper
Development of One-Dimensional Freezing Model in SAM for Salt-Cooled Reactor Analysis Applications
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ling Zou (ANL), Quan Zhou (Kairos Power), Dan O’Grady (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Alex Heald (Kairos Power), Haihua Zhao (Kairos Power)
MELCOR Analysis of Accident Mitigation Capability of Flooding Safety System in Korean i-SMR Under Hypothetical Loss of Coolant Accident
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Chang Hyun Song (Hanyang Univ.), JinHo Song (Hanyang Univ.), Sung Joong Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
BWR-Type SMR with Load-Following Function, FCVS, and Seismic Isolation Device that Eliminates Location Requirements
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hiroshige Kikura (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kazuhiko Kasai (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Koji Endo (Rasa Industries)
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