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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
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Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (ANS)
This session focuses on reactor physics advances towards design, development and deployment of advanced reactors.
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High-Temperature Thermal Neutron Scattering Measurements and Evaluation of YHx for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Kemal Ramic (European Spallation Source), Xunxiang Hu (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Douglas L. Abernathy (ORNL), Alexander I. Kolesnikov (ORNL), Matthew B. Stone (ORNL), Li (Emily) Liu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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The Impact of Temperature Modeling Assumptions for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Brian J. Ade (ORNL), Prashant K. Jain (ORNL), Justin Weinmeister (ORNL), Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
Preliminary Dose Analyses for the Transformational Challenge Reactor Facility
A. Talamo (ANL), A. Bergeron (ANL), S. Mohanty (ANL), S. N. P. Vegendla (ANL), F. Heidet (ANL), B. Ade (ORNL), B. R. Betzler (ORNL)
Numerical Simulation of Non-Isothermal Multicomponent Flow in Fission Product Venting System
Byung-Hee Choi (Texas A&M Univ.), Daniel Orea (Texas A&M Univ.), Reynaldo Chavez (Texas A&M Univ.), Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M Univ.), N.K. Anand (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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