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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 NISD|Cosponsored by AAD, DESD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Banyan C
Session Chair:
Akram Batikh (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Session Organizers:
Yunfei Zhao (UMD)
Track Organizer:
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Guidelines for Designing Radiological Environmental Monitoring Programs for Nuclear Facilities
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Teresa Eddy (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Brooke Stagich (SRNL), Mike Stewart (DOE Office of Public Radiation Protection)
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RASTEP -- A Tool for Nuclear Emergency Response and Decision Making
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Manorma Kumar (Vysus Group), Sergey Galushin (Vysus Group)
Preliminary Parametric Study of Microreactor EPZ
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Erik Hisahara (Penn State), Christopher Balbier (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Doctor -- A Tool for Calculating Nuclear Activity Concentrations and Doses to Workers and the Public, Supporting Consequence Analyses
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Manorma Kumar (Vysus Group), Joakim Klug (Vysus Group)
Best Practices Associated with Community Engagement Panels
2:20–2:30PM PDT
Thomas Jones (Pacific Gas and Electric Co.)
Presented by Maureen Zawalick (Diablo Canyon Power Plant)
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