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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Armitage
Session Chair:
John A. Miller
Alternate Chair:
Amy E. van der Vyver
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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Importance of the HTC Experiments for High Burnup and Extended Enrichment Fuels in Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Walid A. Metwally (ORNL)
Presented by Travis Greene (ORNL)
Paper
The Effect of 155Gd and 157Gd Evaluations on the LEU-COMP-THERM-054 Benchmark Experiments
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Luiz C. Leal (ORNL), Adimir dos Santos (ORNL), Travis Greene (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Preliminary CAAS Coverage Assessment for GNF-A Natrium Fuel Fabrication Facility at 20 wt.% 235U
10:40–11:00AM CDT
James E. Banfield (Global Nuclear Fuel), Lon E. Paulson (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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Similarity Evaluation of the STACY Core to Pseudo Fuel Debris Model
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Shigeki Shiba (Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Japan)
Uncertainty of Structural Material Compositions
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
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