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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 RPD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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A Gas-Cooled Water Moderated Thermo-Electric Reactor Concept
Anatoly Blanovsky (Westside Environmental Technology)
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Modelling of the HTR-PM Pebble-bed Reactor using OpenMC
Jiankai Yu (MIT), Qiudong Wang (Tsinghua Univ.), Ding She (Tsinghua Univ.), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Multi-physics Coupling of PROTEUS-NODAL and SAM for MSR Simulation under MOOSE Framework
Gang Yang (Univ. of Michigan), Mustafa K. Jaradat (Univ. of Michigan), Hansol Park (Univ. of Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. of Michigan), Changho Lee (ANL)
The Application of Disk-type Burnable Absorber in the Soluble-Boron-Free ATOM Core
Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Seongdong Jang (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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