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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)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MDT|Room 7
Session Chair:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood
Alternate Chairs:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)
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Multiphysics Modeling of Molten Salt Reactors Using MOOSE and OpenMC
8:00–8:20AM MDT
Branko Kovacevic (NextGen Nuclear Power Corporation), Lise Charlot, Stefano Terlizzi (Penn State - Ken and Mary Alice Linquist Department of Nuclear Engineering)
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Update on New Models Available on the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) in 2026
8:20–8:40AM MDT
Guillaume Giudicelli (Idaho National Laboratory), Patrick Behne (Idaho National Laboratory), Joshua E. Hansel (Idaho National Laboratory), Lise Charlot, Veerappan Prithivirajan (INL), Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Daniel Grammer, Travis Lange (Idaho National Laboratory), Khaldoon Al-Dawood, Ethan M. Lang (Idaho State University Serials Dept), Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory), Mustafa K. Jaradat (Idaho National Laboratory), Yaqi Wang (Idaho National Laboratory), Thomas Folk (Idaho National Laboratory - National Reactor Innovation Center), Yinbin Miao (Argonne National Laboratory), Yan Cao (Argonne National Laboratory), Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed (Argonne National Laboratory), Emily R. Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory)
MOOSEnger — a Domain-Specific AI Agent for MOOSE Ecosystem
8:40–9:00AM MDT
Mengnan Li (Idaho National Laboratory), Jason Miller, Zachary M. Prince (Idaho National Laboratory), Alexander D. Lindsay, Cody J. Permann (Idaho National Laboratory)
Multiphysics Modeling of Molten Salt Reactor Transients Using MOOSE Applications
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Branko Kovacevic (NextGen Nuclear Power Corporation), Stefano Terlizzi (Penn State - Ken and Mary Alice Linquist Department of Nuclear Engineering)
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