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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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UIUC submits MMR construction permit application
The University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, in partnership with Nano Nuclear Energy, has submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of a Kronos micro modular reactor (MMR). This is the first major step in the two-part 10 CFR Part 50 licensing process for the research and test reactor and is the culmination of years of technical refinement and regulatory alignment.
The team chose to engage with the NRC in a preapplication readiness assessment, providing the agency with draft versions of the majority of the CPA’s technical content for feedback, which is expected to ensure a high-quality application.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kristin Stolte (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all general reactor physics topics of contemporary interest.
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Multi-Physics Sensitivity Analysis of BEAVRS 1st Cycle using MPCORE
Alexey Cherezov (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Awais Zahur (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Chidong Kong (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
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Reactivity Underestimation of ENDF/B-VIII.0 Compared with ENDF/B-VII.1 for the Pressurized Water Reactor Depletion Analysis
Kang-Seog Kim (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Using MCNP and NJOY to Verify Charged Particle Data in CP2020
D. Kent Parsons (LANL), Cecile Toccoli (LANL)
Pre-Conceptual Design of a Gas-Cooled Microreactor with Two-Phase Composite Moderators
Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Robert F. Kile (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Jacob P. Gorton (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
A Benchmark Model for Kairos Power's Pebble-Bed Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor
Nader Satvat (Kairos Power), Fatih Sarikurt (Kairos Power), Kevin Johnson (Kairos Power), Ian Kolaja (Kairos Power), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California Berkeley)
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