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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
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)
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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.), Troy Munro (Brigham Young Univ.), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Nicholas Termini (ORNL)
Phase-field modeling of grain boundary corrosion-induced grain spalling in cladding materials
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Md Zahid Hasan (Bangor Univ.), Walter Villanueava (Bangor Univ.)
ecFOAM: A Simulation Tool for Modeling Continuum-scale Molten Salt Systems
11:00–11:20AM 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
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Furkan Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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