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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Monday, June 8, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
John D. Bess
Alternate Chair:
William M. Cook
Session Organizer:
Vladimir Sobes
Staff Producer:
Eileen Cullen (American Nuclear Society)
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NCS Design and Evaluation of New High-density Storage Containers
Amber McCarthy (Consolidated Nuclear Security)
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ANSI/ANS-8.7 Applications for the Storage of Criticality Control Overpacks
Brittany M. Williamson (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)
A Parametric Study of Uranium Sensitivity in an Aqueous Separations Simulation
Tracy Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC), Camden Blake (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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