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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session|Reactor Physics (RPD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 14
Session Chair:
Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
Alternate Chair:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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SCALE Analysis of the HTR-PROTEUS Core 4 Pebble-Bed Benchmark
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Yves Robert (ORNL), Rabab R. Elzohery (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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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 (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian, Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Adimir dos Santos (Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Iyad I. Al-Qasir (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Experimental Measurements and Atomistic Modeling Show Porosity Does Not Change the Inelastic Scattering in Nuclear Graphite
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad I. Al-Qasir (ORNL), Luke Daemen (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian, Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Anne A. Campbell (ORNL), Douglas Abernathy (ORNL), Matthew Stone (ORNL), Garrett Granroth (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
SCALE Implementation of Batch Feed Capability for MSR Depletion Analysis
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Jonathon Faulkner (Georgia Tech), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Mixing Effects in Nonzero-Power Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment Transients
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Jonathon Faulkner (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology - 770 State Street)
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