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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 THD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Subash L. Sharma (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Session Organizers:
Caleb S. Brooks
Alternate Chair:
Rui Hu
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Microreactor Safety Analysis Requirements for Flexible Siting
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Kenneth Redus (Redus and Associates LLC)
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Assessment of the Thermal-Structural Characteristics of Core Components in a Preconceptual Design of the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Casey J. Jesse (INL), James W. Sterbentz (INL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
Design of a Flat Channel Experiment to Study Molten Salt Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer
P. Rubiolo (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes), J. Giraud (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes), V. Ghetta (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes), M. Tano (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes), J. Blanco (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes), F. Kovacevich (LPSC, Université Grenoble-Alpes)
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