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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Michael Tonks (University of Florida)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Assessment of Local Thermal Conductivity and Microstructure of Ultra-Low Burnup U-20 wt% Pu- 10 wt% Zr Alloy
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Cynthia Adkins (INL), Ethan Hisle (INL), Daniele Salvato (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida), Tiankai Yao (INL)
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Comparison of Porosity Distribution in U-Zr and U-Pu-Zr
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Mitch Mika (Univ. Florida), Luca Capriotti (INL), Tiankai Yao (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Karen Wright (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Advances in Metallic Fuel Database Development and Data Qualification
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Kun Mo (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Dandan Zhang (ANL), Jason L. Schulthess (INL), Douglas L. Porter (INL), Abdellatif Yacout (ANL)
Pulsed Neutron Characterization of Irradiated Fuels at LANSCE
2:00–2:20PM PDT
S.C. Vogel (LANL), James R. Angell (INL), T. Balke (Purdue Univ.), C.A. Bouman (Purdue Univ.), F. Cappia (INL), D.T. Carver (LANL), L. Capriotti (INL), A.E. Craft (INL), J. Harp (ORNL), P. Hoseman (Univ. California, Berkeley), E.J. Larson (LANL), A.M. Long (LANL), A.S. Losko (Technical Univ. Munich), K.J. McClellan (LANL), B.E. Wohlberg (LANL)
Integral Experimental Investigations of Radioisotope Evaporation in Molten Lead for the Mechanistic Source Term Evaluation of Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Malak Bani-Melhem (Univ. New Mexico), Michael Trombetta (Univ. New Mexico), Shuprio Ghosh (Univ. New Mexico), Jared Justice (Univ. New Mexico), Sung J. Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Assoc.), Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. New Mexico)
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