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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Congress passes new nuclear funding
On January 15, in an 82–14 vote, the U.S. Senate passed an Energy and Water Development appropriations bill to fund the U.S. Department of Energy for fiscal year 2026 as part of a broader package that also funded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (ANS)
This session focuses on reactor physics advances towards design, development and deployment of advanced reactors.
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A Study on Natural Circulation Soluble-Boron-Free SMR with Long Cycle and High Burnup
Steven Wijaya (KAIST), Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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A Truly-Optimized PWR (TOP) Core Design of a Soluble-Boron-Free SMR with Burnable Absorber-Integrated Guide Thimble
Xuan Ha Nguyen (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Scalable Modular Dynamic Molten Salt Reactor Model with Depletion Dependency
Visura Pathirana (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
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