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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Michigan/Michigan State
Session Chair:
L Vergari
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Development and Application of the Molten Salt Thermal Properties Database-Thermochemical (MSTDB-TC)
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Theodore M. Besmann (Univ. South Carolina), Juliano-Schorne Pinto (Univ. South Carolina), Jorge Paz Soldan Palma (Univ. South Carolina), Ronald E. Booth (Univ. South Carolina), Aiswarya Padinhare Manissery (Univ. South Carolina), Jack A. Wilson (Univ. South Carolina), Zachary K. Gardiner (Univ. South Carolina)
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Molten Salt Energy Carrier Model Informed by the Pair Distribution Function
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Jacob Numbers (Brigham Young Univ.), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Nicholas Termini (ORNL), Troy Munro (Brigham Young Univ.)
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ecFOAM: A Simulation Tool for Modeling Continuum-scale Molten Salt Systems
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Aryaman Srivastav (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Lorenzo Vergari (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Influence of Surface Roughness on Corrosion Behavior of Hastelloy C276 and SS316 in KCl-LiCl Molten Salt at 500^C
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Furkan Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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