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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|State
Session Chair:
Aaron Epiney (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Holtzman
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Base-Load Nuclear Reactors with High-Temperature Gigawatt-Hour Firebrick Heat Storage for Dispatchable Electricity and Industrial Heat
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Charles W. Forsberg (MIT), Eugene Shwageraus (Cambridge University)
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Electricity Price Model Risk and the Estimated Profitability of Thermal Energy Storage for a Nuclear Power Plant
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Heddy Barale (MIT), John Parsons (MIT)
An Uncertainty Quantification Approach to Safer Integrated Energy Systems
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Yuwei Zong (University of Texas at Dallas), Sobhan Badakhshan (University of Texas at Dallas), Jie Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas), Yanwen Xu (University of Texas at Dallas)
Loss of Intermediate Fluid Transient Analysis Methodology for a Pressurized Water Reactor in an Integrated Energy System
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Isabelle Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Emily V. Meilus (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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