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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD|Cosponsored by IRD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Yang Liu (TAMU)
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Model Development of the Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Potential Use for the High Flux Isotope Reactor
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Joel L. McDuffee (ORNL)
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Multiphysics Coupled Calculations Using OpenFOAM, Serpent, and External Heat Conduction Solver for Prismatic GCRs: A Case Study on HTTR
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Zaid Abulawi (Young Members Group), Ville Rintala (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Heikki Suikkanen (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Iztok Tiselj (University of Ljubljana), Juhani Hyvarinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Yang Liu (TAMU)
V-SMR: Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Integrated Simulation Platform for SMRs
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Yun-Je Cho (KAERI), Sung Hoon Choi (KAERI), Seong Ju Do (KAERI)
Progress in Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Models for NBSR LEU Conversion
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven), Lap-Yan Cheng (Brookhaven), Gerardo Aliberti (ANL), Kyle E. Anderson (ANL), John A. Stillman (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
Recent Developments in STAT7 - Thermal Hydraulics Software with Statistical Uncertainty Propagation for Research and Test Reactors
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Sero Yang (ANL), Graham S. Wilson (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Arne P. Olson (ANL), Justin W. Thomas (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
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