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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin R. Betzler (ORNL)
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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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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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