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August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
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)
