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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 14, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Dimitrios Cokinos (BNL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all general reactor physics topics of contemporary interest.
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Liquid-fueled Molten Salt Reactor Depletion Modeling
Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
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Area Method Physical Interpretation, Modelling, and Intrinsic Bias
A. Talamo (ANL), Y. Gohar (ANL)
Development and Test of a Novel Neutronic Verification Scheme for Molten Salt Reactors
C. Demazière (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), A. Mylonakis (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), P. Vinai (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Studies on Enhanced Spatial Control with Low Enriched Uranium in Plate-Type Fuels
Hailey M. Green (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL)
Examination of the Reactivity Limitations and Burnable Poison Loading Requirements for the OPEN100 Core Concept
Andrew Hummel (Kennesaw State Univ.), Joshua Tolbert (Energy Impact Center), Michael Beckert (Energy Impact Center)
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