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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Former NRC commissioners lend support to efforts to eliminate mandatory hearings
A group of nine former nuclear regulatory commissioners sent a letter Wednesday to the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission members lending support to efforts to get rid of mandatory hearings in the licensing process, which should speed up the process by three to six months and save millions of dollars.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL)
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Nuclear Data Experiments for Fusion: Challenges, Successes, and Future Needs
Mark Gilbert (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
Paper
Small Specimen Test Technique Development for Materials Qualification Using Fusion Neutron Source
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Yao Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Mario Walter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Emile Gaganidze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Shuhei Nogami (Tohoku University), Mitsuru Ohata (Osaka Univ.), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), David Andres (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Henk Nolles (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yiqiang Wang (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Sehila Maria Gonzalez de Vicente (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
Specimen Size Effects on Creep Properties of F82H Reduced-Activation Ferritic Steel
Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Masami Ando (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Taichiro Kato (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
Flexural Testing of Neutron Irradiated Tungsten Materials by Three-Point Bend
Nathan C. Reid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL), Trevor Marchhart (Penn State), Jean Paul Allain (Penn State)
Influence of Fatigue Precracking and Specimen Size on the Master Curve Fracture Toughness Measurements of EUROFER97 and F82H Steels
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL)
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