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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|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 7
Session Chair:
Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
Alternate Chairs:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)
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HALEU Five-Fuel-Assembly Micro-Reactor in Once-through Operation Cycle Performance Assessment
1:00–1:20PM MDT
John D. Bess (JFoster and Associates, LLC), Gray S. Chang (JFoster and Associates, LLC), Julie Foster
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Bridging Microreactor Design and Economics: The Microreactor Optimization Using Simulation And Economics (MOUSE) Tool
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Botros N. Hanna (INL)
On the Impact of Depletion Zoning and Fuel Homogenization on Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactors Reactivity and Lifetime
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Reham Abdelnasser (Pennsylvania State University), Stefano Terlizzi (Penn State - Ken and Mary Alice Linquist Department of Nuclear Engineering)
Assessing Reactivity Impacts of Control and Reflector Supercells in Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors
2:00–2:20PM MDT
MOHAMED NASSER (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology - 770 State Street)
Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Thermal Property Changes in a Heat-Pipe Microreactor Using MOOSE
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Wafaa I. Osman (North Carolina State University), Gregory K. Delipei (North Carolina State University), Maria N. Avramova (North Carolina State University)
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