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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
L Vergari (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Discovering Electrochemical Mechanisms for Moisture Induced Molten Salt Corrosion
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Anton Schneider (LANL), Ximeng Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), David Andersson (LANL)
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Miniaturized Testing Technique for Fracture Toughness Evaluation of Irradiated Materials
3:35–3:55PM PDT
T.S. Byun (ORNL), David A. Collins (ORNL), Sunday C. Aduloju (ORNL), Ben E. Garrison (ORNL), Annabelle G. Le Coq (ORNL), Kory D. Linton (ORNL)
Correlating Damage with Acoustic Emission in Creeping 316 Stainless Steels
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Muhammad Khan (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Chenxi Xu (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Javier Obregon (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Didem Ozevin (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Matthew Daly (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
Effect of Al Addition on the Microstructure and Radiation Response of Equiatomic CrFeMnNi and CrFeCuNi Alloys
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Saikumaran Ayyappan (NCSU), Kara Krogh (NCSU), Geoffrey Beausoleil (INL), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
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