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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Depletion Benchmark Analysis on a Lead Fast Reactor Using PyARC/OpenMC
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Alex Levinsky (LANL)
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Threading Efforts on DIF3D-VARIANT
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL)
A Bowing Reactivity Worth Capability Available in PERSENT
8:40–9:00AM CDT
PyARC Status Update: Recent Enhancements to a User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (MIT), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
Zero Power Reactor Database Hosted at Argonne National Laboratory
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL), Richard M. Lell (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL)
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