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Nuclear legislation progresses in the Midwest
In the past week, two pieces of nuclear legislation moved forward in two Midwestern states.
In Wisconsin, a bill to create new tax credits for new power plants passed through the state Assembly and went to the Senate, while in Indiana, a bill to simplify the state approval process for new plants passed through the state Senate and went to the House.
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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