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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Ten EU countries call for nuclear to be marked ‘sustainable’
Ten of the 27 member countries of the European Union recently sent a letter to the European Commission calling for nuclear power to be labeled as sustainable in a new rulemaking that pertains to powering data centers and artificial intelligence.
While the EC’s decision could have significant impact on the future deployment of nuclear across the continent, this call to action also represents a broader positive reconsideration of nuclear power in Europe in recent years.
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)
