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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Beyond conventional boundaries: Innovative construction technologies pave the way for advanced reactor deployment
In a bid to tackle the primary obstacle in nuclear deployment—construction costs—those in industry and government are moving away from traditional methods and embracing innovative construction technologies.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 8, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Dimitrios Cokinos (Brookheaven National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel Tsvetkov (LANL)
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Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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From Nuclear Data to Reactor Design
Vladimir Sobes (Univ. of Tenn.), Luiz Leal (Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire), Benoit Forget (MIT), Barry Ganapol (The Univ. of Arizona)
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Development of Coupled Monte Carlo Transport-burnup and CFD Simulations in SuperMC
Louhanrong Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Univ. of Science and Technology of China), Lei Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Bin Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shengpeng Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Pengcheng Long (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Verification of Predicted Energy Deposition Using CASMO5 Coupled Neutron-Gamma Transport Solutions for Selected VERA Benchmark Problems
Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower), Joshua Hykes (Studsvik Scandpower), Charles Wemple (Studsvik Scandpower)
University of Tennessee Fast Neutron Source Design History
J. Wesley Hines (Univ. of Tenn.), John Pevey (Univ. of Tenn.), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tenn.), Vlad Sobes (Univ. of Tenn.)
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