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2023 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 12–15, 2023
Washington, D.C.|Washington Hilton
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NCSU’s advanced research reactor study to be funded by state
North Carolina’s fiscal year 2024 budget for the state has allocated $3 million for North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, to conduct a study to assess the feasibility for the establishment of an advanced nuclear research reactor.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Preliminary Results from In-Pile Transient Boiling Experiments at the TREAT Facility
R. Christensen (Univ. of Idaho), K. Terrill (Univ. of Idaho), N. Brown (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), R. Hernandez (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), D. Wachs (INL), R. Armstrong (INL), A. Fleming (INL), N. Woolstenhulme (INL), C. Folsom (INL), C. Jensen (INL)
Summary
Informing Transient Testing of Fuel Designs for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Robert Kile (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Kurt A. Terrani (ORNL), Gokul Vasudevamurthy (ORNL), Aaron J. Wysocki (ORNL), Daniel Schappel (ORNL)
Strontium Diffusivity in IG-110 Graphite Using a Time-Release Method
Taylor Mae Weilert (Univ. of Missouri)
Establishing Maximal Core Excess Reactivity Envelope for TREAT Test Vehicle Insertion
James R. Parry (INL), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), John D. Bess (INL)
HFIR Irradiation Testing Supporting the Transformational Challenge Reactor
R. H. Howard (ORNL), K. A. Terrani (ORNL), T. S. Byun (ORNL), X. Hu (ORNL), P. Champlin (ORNL), K. D. Linton (ORNL), A. G. Le Coq (ORNL)
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