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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Matthew Wargon (TerraPower)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Direct Multi-Group Cross-Sections via NJOY/ETEN for TRISO Fuel Compacts
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Taylor S. Kimball (Univ. Utah), Glenn E. Sjoden (Univ. Utah), Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
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Exploring the Effect of the Number of Groups of Delayed Neutron Precursors in Reactor Dynamics Simulations of Molten Salt Reactors
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
A Note on Using Poisons to Improve MTC in Metal Hydride-Moderated Reactors
10:40–11:00AM PDT
Zuolong Zhu (Ohio State), Dean Wang (Ohio State)
Feasibility of Enhancing Neutron Moderation in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor by Using Synthetic Diamond
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Reem Alnuaimi (KAIST), Paolo Venneri (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp.), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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