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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Studsvik applies to build more reactors; Sweden seeks majority control of SMR company
New developments in Sweden’s nuclear energy industry continue to make headlines. Last week, Swedish engineering services firm Studsvik submitted an application to build between 600 MWe and 1,400 MWe of new nuclear power capacity “at and around” its Nyköping Municipality headquarters. Separately, the Swedish government
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|3. Fusion Enabling Technologies
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|1:15–3:00PM MDT|Tower C
Session Chair:
Subash Sharma (MS&T)
Alternate Chair:
Thanh Hua (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Lane Carasik
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Investigations of Thermal Transients of a FLiBe Based Liquid Immersion Blanket System using SAM
1:15–1:35PM MDT
Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Alexander Coxe (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Paper
Running Out of Fusion Gas
1:35–1:55PM MDT
Mohammad A. Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dean Krueger (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Matthew J. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Sarah Francis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Code-to-code Comparison of OpenMC and ORIGEN for Isotopic Depletion in Fusion
1:55–2:15PM MDT
Son N. Quang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonathan F. Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Simulating Neutron Activation of Impurities in Feedstock Lithium in a Fusion Breeder Environment
2:15–2:35PM MDT
Alexander J. Lascheid (Univ. New Mexico), Liam Pohlmann (Univ. New Mexico), Ethan Pater (Univ. New Mexico), Eric J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico), John Elling (Molten Salt Solutions)
Benchmarking and Validation of MHD Models for Non-conducting Circular Ducts in SAM and NekRS for Fusion Blanket Applications
2:35–2:55PM MDT
Thanh Q. Hua (ANL), Eric Cervi (ANL), Misun Min (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)