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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Technical Session|Reactor Physics (RPD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Governor's Square 14
Session Chair:
Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
Alternate Chairs:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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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 (Penn State), 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 Tech), 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 (NCSU), Gregory K. Delipei (NCSU), Maria N. Avramova (NCSU)
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