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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
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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 THD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Robert P. Martin
Alternate Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (ANS)
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Thermal Decomposition of Carbonates as a Passive Cooling Mechanism for Molten Salt Reactors
Christopher Forsyth (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
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Study of Sodium Pool Fire Model Improvement in MELCOR for SFR
David L.Y. Louie (Sandia National Laboratories), Mitsuhiro Aoyagi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of the Kairos Power Generic Fluoride High Temperature Reactor in MELCOR
Robert F. Kile (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Steve E. Skutnik (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Modeling of HTTF test PG-26 using RELAP5-3D and SAM
Aaron Epiney (INL), Thanh Hua (ANL), James Wolf (INL), Ling Zou (ANL), Gerhard Strydom (INL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Safety Assessment of Composite Alternative Moderators for Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
Veronica Karriem (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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