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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Marriott 10
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Failure Analysis of the Thermal Convection Loop by the Leak of Molten Salt
1:00–1:20PM EDT
Hwa Jeong Han (Soonchunhyang Univ.), Byung Gi Park (Soonchunhyang Univ.)
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Continuous High-Speed Molten Salt Density Measurement Through Thermomechanical Analysis
1:20–1:40PM EDT
Jaron Wallace (San Rafael Energy Research Center), Kayden Alderson (San Rafael Energy Research Center)
Measurement of the Self-Diffusivity of Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering
1:40–2:00PM EDT
G.S. Rakib (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S.C. Lee (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M.A. Rose (ANL), D.M. Pajerowski (ORNL), Y Z (Univ. Michigan), B.J. Heuser (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Measurement of the Pair Distribution Function of Molten Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Neutron Diffraction
2:00–2:20PM EDT
G. S. Rakib (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S.C. Lee (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M.A. Rose (ANL), J.C. Neuefeind (ORNL), Y Z (Univ. Michigan), B.J. Heuser (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Lessons Learned in how to Conduct Irradiated Salt Experiments
2:20–2:40PM EDT
Charles Forsberg (MIT), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley), Kevin Robb (ORNL), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
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