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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Jefferson Lab awarded $8M for accelerator technology to enable transmutation
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is leading research supported by two Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) grants aimed at developing accelerator technology to enable nuclear waste recycling, decreasing the half-life of spent nuclear fuel.
Both grants, totaling $8.17 million in combined funding, were awarded through the Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) program, which aims to enable the transmutation of nuclear fuels by funding novel technologies for improving the performance of particle generation systems.
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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