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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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University of Rochester and Focused Energy establish $6.9 million partnership
Focused Energy and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have established a $6.9 million partnership agreement to collaborate on fundamental challenges in inertial fusion energy.
Technical Session|Reactor Physics (RPD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Room 7
Session Chair:
Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
Alternate Chair:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
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SCALE Analysis of the HTR-PROTEUS Core 4 Pebble-Bed Benchmark
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Yves Robert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Rabab R. Elzohery (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Donny Hartanto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Friederike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William A. Wieselquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Why Graphite Porosity TSLs Should Not Be Used for Advanced Reactor Analysis: Multi-Benchmark ICSBEP/IRPhE Testing
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian, Travis M. Greene (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Adimir dos Santos (Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares), Douglas E. Peplow (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Chris W. Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Iyad I. Al-Qasir (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Friederike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William A. Wieselquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Experimental Measurements and Atomistic Modeling Show Porosity Does Not Change the Inelastic Scattering in Nuclear Graphite
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Iyad I. Al-Qasir (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Luke Daemen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian, Chris W. Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Travis M. Greene (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Goran Arbanas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Anne A. Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Douglas Abernathy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Matthew Stone (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Garrett Granroth (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William A. Wieselquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
SCALE Implementation of Batch Feed Capability for MSR Depletion Analysis
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Jonathon Faulkner (Georgia Institute of Technology), Friederike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William A. Wieselquist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mixing Effects in Nonzero-Power Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment Transients
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Jonathon Faulkner (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology - 770 State Street)
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