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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, June 13, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Impact of Diffusion Parameters on Cs and Sr Release from TRISO Fuel Particles at High Temperature
Seokbin Seo (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Graphite in Fluoride Salts Reactors: Tritium Sequestration, Tribology, and Salt Infiltration
Lorenzo Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Density Functional Theory van der Waals Corrections for Simulating Fluoride and Chloride Molten Salts
Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Shubhojit Banerjee (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Digestion of FLiNaK for Elemental Analysis with ICP-OES
S. Mastromarino (Univ. California, Berkeley), A. Kennedy (Univ. California, Berkeley), R.O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Probing Speciation of Light Elements in Molten Salts by Electrochemistry, High Temperature Liquid NMR, and Neutron Diffraction
Haley Williams (Univ. California, Berkeley), Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mark Asta (Univ. California, Berkeley), Boris Khaykovich (MIT), Sven C. Vogel (LANL), Ian Farnan (Univ. Cambridge), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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