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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Emily R. Shemon
Alternate Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
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Deimos: Establishment of a New Advanced Reactor Testbed
8:00–8:10AM CDT
Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Holly R. Trellue (LANL), Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Rene G. Sanchez (LANL)
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Multiphysics Simulation of TRISO Fuel Compacts and the Effects of Homogenization on Fission Products Release
8:10–8:20AM CDT
Aya Hegazy (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Pierre-Clément Simon (INL), Rizwan Uddin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
CoreForge: A Python Library for Reactor Model Construction
8:20–8:30AM CDT
Cole A. Gentry (ORNL), Nicholas P. Luciano (ORNL), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Bison Thermo-mechanical Analysis for the Heated Region for the Deimos Test
8:30–8:40AM CDT
Abraham Haggerty (LANL), Christopher Matthews (LANL), Alex Levinsky (LANL), Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL)
Expanding Mathematical and Computational Models for innovative SMR-based Smart Net-Zero City
8:40–8:50AM CDT
Son Jeong-ok (Korea Hydro&Nuclear Power Co., Ltd), Jang You-Hyun (Korea Hydro&Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.), Shin Ho-Cheol (Korea Hydro&Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.)
The First Four Decades of ANS Nuclear Criticality Transactions Paper Summaries
8:50–9:00AM CDT
Brian L. Koponen (Golden Valley Publications), John Fabian (American Nuclear Society)
Deimos Critical Experiment for High Assay Low Enriched Uranium
9:00–9:10AM CDT
Holly R. Trellue (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL)
Comparison of Dose Calculation Methods Used at Savannah River Site's H-Canyon
9:10–9:20AM CDT
Donald B. Beeson (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions), Scott Martin (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
Using Machine Learning to Help Develop Nuclear Criticality Safety Evaluations
9:20–9:30AM CDT
Anneli Brackbill (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), James J. Kuropatwinski (Los Alamos National Lab), Isaac J. Michaud (Los Alamos National Lab)
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