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NASA, DOE solidify collaboration on a lunar surface reactor
NASA and the Department of Energy have announced a “renewed commitment” to their mutual goal of supporting research and development for a nuclear fission reactor on the lunar surface to provide power for future missions. The agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding that “solidifies this collaboration and advances President Trump’s vision of American space superiority.”
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Humberstone
Alternate Chair:
Rawan Mustafa
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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MELCOR Model Development for BlueCRAB and FATE Microreactor Code Comparisons
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Manit D. Shah (ORNL), Alex J. Huning (ORNL)
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Progress on Advancement in Modeling and Testing of the Simplified Radionuclide Transport (SRT) Source Term Analysis Code
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong H. Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)
Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of a Generation IV Pebble Bed Reactor Using MELCOR 2.2
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Matthew D. Eklund (INL), Bob Wolfgang (X-energy), Brian Mays (X-energy), Paolo Balestra (INL), Lise Charlot (INL), Julia Sharma (X-energy), Kyle G. Metzroth (X-energy), Diego Mandelli (INL)
FATE Model for General Facility Safety and Source Terms
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Kayla Watanabe (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Christian Renk (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Jose P. Gutierrez (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Nicholas Ray (Fauske and Associates LLC.), James Scobel (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Matthew Kennedy (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Martin G. Plys (Fauske & Associates, LLC)
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