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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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ADP on track to complete major D&D work at Crystal River-3 this summer
Advanced Decommissioning Partners, a joint venture of NorthStar Group Services and Orano USA, is set to complete major decommissioning activities at Crystal River-3 nuclear power plant in Florida this summer, according to the license termination plan (LTP) the company submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Technical Session|Reactor Physics (RPD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 14
Session Chair:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood
Alternate Chairs:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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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 (INL), Patrick Behne (INL), Joshua E. Hansel (INL), Lise Charlot, Veerappan Prithivirajan (INL), Benjamin Spencer (INL), Daniel Grammer, Travis Lange (INL), Khaldoon Al-Dawood, Ethan M. Lang (Idaho State University Serials Dept), Ryan H. Stewart (INL), Mustafa K. Jaradat (INL), Yaqi Wang (INL), Thomas Folk (Idaho National Laboratory - National Reactor Innovation Center), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed (ANL), Emily R. Shemon (ANL)
MOOSEnger — a Domain-Specific AI Agent for MOOSE Ecosystem
8:40–9:00AM MDT
Mengnan Li (INL), Jason Miller, Zachary M. Prince (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay, Cody J. Permann (INL)
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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