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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS Winter Conference: DOE, NRC leaders stress need for speedier nuclear approval
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Chris Wright
During speeches at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference & Expo, happening this week in Washington, D.C., Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair David Wright both promised that the Trump administration will speed up nuclear reviews so the U.S. can maintain leadership in nuclear energy.
The DOE’s Wright took a stab at the NRC’s traditionally slow bureaucratic processes in approving primarily large light water reactors in the past, saying that the agency needs to speed up to meet the greater demand for new small modular reactors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan B
Session Chair:
Benjamin Beeler (NCSU)
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Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Thermophysical Characterization of Molten Salt Reactor Fuels Through Experimentation and Semi-Empirical Modeling
10:00–10:40AM PDT
Anthony Birri (ORNL), Nicholas Termini (ORNL), Shane Henderson (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
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Advancing Thermal Conductivity Measurement and Modeling for Molten Salts in Gen IV Nuclear Reactors
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Jacob Numbers (Brigham Young Univ.), Tyler Hamm (Brigham Young Univ.), Ryan Ruth (Brigham Young Univ.), Hunter Pitchford (Brigham Young Univ.), McKay Sumsion (Brigham Young Univ.), Noah Petersen (Brigham Young Univ.), Ben Wright (Brigham Young Univ.), Brian Merritt (Brigham Young Univ.), Crewse Petersen (Brigham Young Univ.), Max Colton (Brigham Young Univ.), Spencer Larson (Brigham Young Univ.), David Allred (Brigham Young Univ.), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Troy Munro (Brigham Young Univ.)
Assessing Impurity Activity in 2LiF-BeF2 Using a Transpiration Method
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Ryan C. Gallagher (Kairos Power), Jake Quincey (Kairos Power), Jacob W. McMurray (Kairos Power), Augustus Merwin (Kairos Power)
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