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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Indiana/Iowa
Session Chair:
Logan Scott (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Session Organizer:
Jared Johnson (ORNL)
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Oxidation State Favorability Due to Cation Radii in MSR Fuels
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Hannah K. Patenaude (LANL), Jarom L. Chamberlain (LANL), Clare A. Hatfield (LANL), S. S. Parker (LANL), Marisa J. Monreal (LANL)
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Hydrochlorination of UO2 in Molten Salt Mixtures to Form Molten Salt Reactor Fuel
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Vinh T. Nguyen (Savannah River National Laboratory), Bryan Foley (Savannah River National Laboratory), Robert A. Pierce (Savannah River National Laboratory), Donald Baer (Metatomic Inc.), Steven Hung (Metatomic Inc.)
Lessons Learned In How to Conduct Loop and Irradiated Salt Experiments: Workshop II
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Charles W. Forsberg (MIT), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley), Kevin R. Robb (ORNL), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Molten Salt Species Solubility Calculations Using Thermochimica's Gibbs Energy Minimizer (GEM)
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL), Greg Westphal (ORNL), Robert K. Salko (ORNL), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Nicholas Termini (ORNL)
Introducing Efforts Towards the Development of Molten Salt Reactor Chemistry Digital Twin
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Braden K. Clayton (Brigham Young Univ.), Loc B. Duong (Univ. Texas, Austin), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Cole A. Gentry (ORNL), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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