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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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UIUC submits MMR construction permit application
The University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, in partnership with Nano Nuclear Energy, has submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of a Kronos micro modular reactor (MMR). This is the first major step in the two-part 10 CFR Part 50 licensing process for the research and test reactor and is the culmination of years of technical refinement and regulatory alignment.
The team chose to engage with the NRC in a preapplication readiness assessment, providing the agency with draft versions of the majority of the CPA’s technical content for feedback, which is expected to ensure a high-quality application.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Development of Principal Design Criteria of the Fast Modular Reactor
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
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A Simple Program to Estimate the Fast Modular Reactor Steady-State Closed Brayton Cycle Operating Parameters
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Matthew Virgen (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Robert W. Schleicher (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
Thermal-Fluidic Safety Related Phenomena Identification for Horizontally Oriented Micro-HTGRs
T-Ying Lin (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State), Masahiro Kawaji (City College of New York), Donald E. McEligot (Kansas State)
MELCOR Model Development of the General Atomics Fast Modular Reactor
Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Jun Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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