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Materials Science & Technology
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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MURR expansion set back by Mo. state legislature
Spirits were high last month when a ribbon cutting was held at the University of Missouri for a $20 million, three-story, 47,000-square-foot addition, dubbed MURR West, to the MURR research reactor facilities.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by ANSTD, OPD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|4:35–6:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kristin N. Smith
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (LANL)
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Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Neutronics Analysis of Cold Critical KRUSTY Experiments using MCNP and Serpent
Pavel Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.), Rene Sanchez (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Kristin Smith (Texas A&M Univ.)
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Preliminary Study of Model Predictive Control for Load Follow Operation of Holos Reactor
Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen LLC), Volkan Seker (Univ. of Michigan), Shai Kinast (Univ. of Michigan/Nuclear Research Center Negev)
Linear Stability Analysis of HTR-like Micro-reactors
Volkan Seker (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen LLC), Erez Gilad (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Shai Kinast (Nuclear Research Center Negev/Univ. of Michigan), Doron Sivan (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev/Israel Atomic Energy Commission)
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