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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Eleodor M. Nichita
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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A Chloride-Fluoride Hybrid Salt for a Long-life Maritime Molten Salt Fast Reactor
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Young-June Lee (KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology )), Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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A Portable Micro Molten Salt Reactor using Chloride and Fluoride Hybrid Salt Fuel
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Coupled OpenMC and SAM Steady State Analysis of a Molten Salt Reactor for Ship Propulsion
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Loc B. Duong (Univ. Michigan), Han G. Lee (Univ. Michigan), Puran Deng (Univ. Michigan), Won S. Yang (Univ. Michigan)
Xenon Gas and Liquid Phase Concentrations with/without Off-System in the Iodine Liquid of the MSRE Loop
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL)
A Preliminary Study of Micro-Size Multi-module MSMR (Molten Salt & Metal Reactor)
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Jaehyun Ryu (KAIST), Jangsik Moon (BEES), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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